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1. feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 04:32:06 UTC feld

   • Caleb James DeLisle
   Because movies make us scared of nukes and the general public doesn't know what an EMP would do
   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 04:31:04 UTC feld

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     • Caleb James DeLisle
     • M. Grégoire
     You could probably cripple the country by breaking a large part of the American internet and leave major city like Chicago without power with only two or three strategically placed EMPs
     
     The chaos would be awful
     
     And then go cut fiber at the edges of other large cities -- easy to do as it's obvious where the hand holes are along the interstate highways and they're not secured
     
     American comms blacked out, at least one third of the US grid unstable ...
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   • M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 04:31:05 UTC M. Grégoire

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     • Caleb James DeLisle

     @cjd @feld I understand the concept, but are we talking city-level destruction, generating station destruction, server farm destruction, etc. ?

   • Caleb James DeLisle (cjd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 04:32:05 UTC Caleb James DeLisle

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire @feld
     Think nuclear blast, but has no effect on anything except all electronics are destroyed.

   • M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 04:32:06 UTC M. Grégoire

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     • Caleb James DeLisle

     @feld @cjd I understand that you're worrying about a truck full of capacitors designed to be a weapon. How dangerous would such a weapon be?

   • Caleb James DeLisle (cjd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 05:24:19 UTC Caleb James DeLisle

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire @feld
     Supposedly the US army has something the size of a pringles can which will do 1 city block.

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   • Caleb James DeLisle (cjd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Feb-2022 05:24:20 UTC Caleb James DeLisle

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire @feld
     Not 100% sure if there are some electronics which are resistant, but normally it's considered that anything with a chip inside a certain radius is gone. Beyond that radius, stuff that's turned OFF is safe but on = gone.