> Once a Hezbollah operative is identified, his daily patterns of movements are fed into a vast database of information, siphoned off from devices that could include his wife’s cell phone, his smart car’s odometer, or his location. These can be identified from sources as disparate as a drone flying overhead, from a hacked CCTV camera feed that he happens to pass by, and even from his voice captured on the microphone of a modern TV’s remote control.
Shit like this scares me, a lot. I know intellectually that this was possible, and I know intellectually that there's no putting the genie back in that bottle. But, everyone's cheering right now because they aimed this capability at 'bad guys'. It's only a matter of time until we're all bad guys.
Literally, the US/Israeli governments could murder any one of us in cold blood, on a whim, and make it look like an accident. And most cheered as they developed this tech.
I'm not trying to make a wider statement about israel/palestine, but when I heard about the exploding pagers, my first instinctive thought was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY. These latest developments don't make me feel any better
> Once a Hezbollah operative is identified, his daily patterns of movements are fed into a vast database of information, siphoned off from devices that could include his wife’s cell phone, his smart car’s odometer, or his location. These can be identified from sources as disparate as a drone flying overhead, from a hacked CCTV camera feed that he happens to pass by, and even from his voice captured on the microphone of a modern TV’s remote control.
Shit like this scares me, a lot. I know intellectually that this was possible, and I know intellectually that there's no putting the genie back in that bottle. But, everyone's cheering right now because they aimed this capability at 'bad guys'. It's only a matter of time until we're all bad guys.
Literally, the US/Israeli governments could murder any one of us in cold blood, on a whim, and make it look like an accident. And most cheered as they developed this tech.
I'm not trying to make a wider statement about israel/palestine, but when I heard about the exploding pagers, my first instinctive thought was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY. These latest developments don't make me feel any better
Thanks to https://hwfo.substack.com/ for this idea.
> Rifle: 2 lbs of ferrous metals. 1.5 lbs in barrel and muzzle device, 0.5 lbs in bolt carrier group.
If these numbers are accurate, I need to replace my POS rifle. It's like 8 lbs when loaded, and there's not much in the way of nonferrous parts in it
Almost all the metal parts on a typical AR are aluminum.
I don't have an AR, I have a shitty Golani (AK platform)
Last time I went shooting with friends, I tried out my friend's middle-of-the-road AR, it weighed less than half what my rifle does
Come to the dark side
I mostly just want a 9mm PCC. 9mm for inexpensive plinking. PCC because I hate pistols and PCCs are easier for me to be accurate with