[p2p-research] Drone hacking

[J. Andrew Rogers]

The mistake here is in thinking that decentralized networks disfavor
"concentrated power" organizations. In practice the exact opposite is
true. You can exploit and leverage decentralized networks in ways that
are far more subtle and difficult to detect than centralized ones --
they have their own weaknesses. Against a very technically advanced
adversary with excellent mathematics and computer science, the barrier
to effectiveness to the wannabe asymmetrical warrior is *far* higher
than in more traditional asymmetrical warfare scenarios.

The "advantage" for someone at a systemic disadvantage is purely
transitory, it has only been true in practice because of the
traditional lack of sophistication on the part of the organizations
they were fighting against. Obviously the barrier to entry is higher
for the "concentrated power" organization as well, as it requires very
specific kinds of technological competence that they may have not had
any prior need to develop.


When the main tools of war become vast supercomputers and very
advanced theoretical mathematics, it won't favor the scrappy "freedom
fighter". It is much easier to buy an AK47 or build an IED than to
create a competitive (and survivable) analytical supercomputing
infrastructure that can play this particular game of chess.


-- 
J. Andrew Rogers
realityminer.blogspot.com