- cross-posted to:
- noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
I posted this OC 8 months ago, today i see this in my YT feed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-p2srIRLI (Ukraine Counters Fibre-Optic Drones with Lasers That Fry the Cables)
unless it injects a detonation command
If you can inject commands into a communication line, somebody was really stupid while designing it.
Which happens, but then a different idiot tends to fix it. See what happened with the Starlink-controlled drones.
Well those fiber optic line end points are not exactly encrypted, they use off the shelf components like HDMI over Fiber adapters, and serial over fiber for control link. In rare cases they could maybe use a actual IP connection over fiber but i doubt that since, it would add overhead, latency and make the hardware setup a lot more complex and expensive (if would be able to encrypt tho).
Wouldn’t any civilian endpoint they’re buying be designed to use IP?
no, because often its not “internet/network over fiber” stuff but HDMI over fiber no ip there. HDMI cables have very limited lenght due to high frequency beeing used in em, so if you have a media production company and a few spread out cameras HDMI over fiber is kinda common
Huh, TIL!