Comment by ceejayoz
1 month ago
The next world war seems like it’ll be about five minutes long. Nukes won’t be required to send us back to the Stone Age.
1 month ago
The next world war seems like it’ll be about five minutes long. Nukes won’t be required to send us back to the Stone Age.
You mean all our devices refusing to work for us at a switch of a button?
One of the best conspiracy theories I have heard recently is that the CCP can use one of their reconnaissance balloons to instantly switch every device that has a Chinese radio chip into DDOS mode. If that were to happen it could plausibly generate enough congestion to seriously degrade a significant portion of the public Internet. This would of course be coordinated with multiple underwater cable cuts.
It seems all too plausible, based on my admittedly limited understanding of how these devices work.
This is hilarious. Is there any evidence that such a "DDOS mode" has ever existed in any device?
wasn’t vo1d something which could potentially deliver in this?
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No, of course there is no evidence, that's why it's a conspiracy theory. I can't remember if I saw it on a YouTube comment or a Reddit thread. Both are only slightly better than 4chan.
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>One of the best conspiracy theories I have heard recently is that the CCP can use one of their reconnaissance balloons to instantly switch every device that has a Chinese radio chip into DDOS mode.
This is a terrible conspiracy theory. Given how much Chinese IOT devices active in the West right now, the CCP doesn't even need to fly a balloon into the US. They can just pressure its IOT vendors to push a firmware update that broadcasts the DDOS signal.
>If that were to happen it could plausibly generate enough congestion to seriously degrade a significant portion of the public Internet.
At best it'll take down 2.4ghz communications, not the entire internet, or even all wifi networks. 5 Ghz/cellular networks will be spared because cheap chinese IOT devices don't operate in those frequency ranges, or the band is too wide for devices to jam. Moreover any important systems/institutions would presumably have hardwired connections, which are completely immune.