What products are most at risk. What are easiest to replace to reduce risk? Hardest to replace?
Our infrastructure. All our core network switches which are all American companies. Could you imagine if they did this the response around the world.
GPS. The system can be turned off in specific regions (no idea how, it’s classified, but they’ve actually done it so it’s not just a wild notion), and portions of the signal are already encrypted such that they’re only available to the US military. There would be little stopping them from sending altered signals or just turning it off.
Many missile systems, aircraft and fighting vehicles rely on GPS to function as expected.
Zamboni killswitch being activated.
The cell phone network might be a day 0 target, but Cell phones would be left mostly untouched, they are easy to track/drone strike. Interference would only happen acutely for IED concerns or cqb operations
GPS/Satellite location would be jammed / disabled
Internet connections would be targeted, sea cables, microwave, etc
Electrical systems would be targeted.
Prioritize:
- electrical backups
- clean water backups
- communication backups (point to point fiber, lasers, microwave)
cell phone network
Oddly enough, there was a huge push a while back to prevent Huawei being used in the cell phone network as infrastructure, because it gave China a potential espionage route. No one was thinking “kill switch” during this discussion. And no one was considering US tech in this discussion as a risk either.
I wonder what percentage of Canadian cell phone infrastructure is American?
What about network switches I’m guessing Cisco.
Sever the submarine cables.
I think most submarines are cordless nowadays
