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In a worst case scenario: US Invasion. What device could the US government simply force to stop working in Canada that would cause the most chaos (e.g: brick all iPhones)? (self.MapleResistance)

submitted 4 days ago by troyunrau to c/MapleResistance

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What products are most at risk. What are easiest to replace to reduce risk? Hardest to replace?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

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)

[–] troyunrau 6 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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?

[–] phanto 3 points 4 days ago

Most of the Huawei stuff got replaced with Nokia stuff, in Western Canada.

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