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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)? (lemmy.ca)
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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] 6 points 4 days ago (3 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

What about network switches I'm guessing Cisco.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In a invasion we don't have to think about software kill switches, each tower can be trivially destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suppose I was presuming they wanted the infrastructure intact. Probably easier to shut off the power than to destroy the dam. But this all presumes they're acting rationally. Invading Canada isn't rational, so everything else is a question mark too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Cell phone towers are not critical infrastructure, destroying them is just the cost of war.

Hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, anything that takes a long time to build, would be spared if the intent is to takeover.

Off the cuff invasion scenario:

  1. Jam all gps
  2. Multistike all air force and anti air installations
  3. Emp over military facilities
  4. Destroy key communication points
  5. Destroy power grid
  6. Mine all major roads (cluster mines from the air)
  7. Secure /disable nuclear assets

Cut the population off so they can't organize, destroy the military, secure critical assets. Since most of the CA population lives within 100km of the boarder the only real pernicious worry will be submarines deployed and further afield military posts in the north.