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Originally Posted by Suhiir
You're assuming your hackers have perfect battlefield intelligence and know the precise time and place to institute their hack. And also assuming the hack is 100% successful.
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It doesn't work that way. The "hack" is a programmed routine in one of hundreds of banks contained in one microchip. The routine is called when a particular signal is received. So, say the threat atenna picks up a signal from a Chinese missile, rather than processing the signal as a threat, the routine processes the signal as a friend. Or, the array of attennai chained together as a block emit a homeing signal.
Either way the so called "hack" does not require battlefield intelligence.
Now, the malware (routine) infected microchips are purchased by a maintenance sub contractor from legitimate firms. The sub contractor inserts the chips. Testing each chip would require a test across a very large spectrum of frquencies, not impossible to test for but the problem is to isolate as you can imagine that one frequency the adversary uses. We don't know that. In a war situation, the adversary would program it's planes and missiles to exploit the "hacked" chips.
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