I actually posted something about this kind of thing recently but it looks like somebody else beat me to it!

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Ten or fifteen years ago a guy made a cruise missile with a couple hundred mile range and GPS guidance in his garage for a few hundred bucks, then tried to get in touch with the government of I think it was Australia to say "Hey this is a real fucking problem you can make cruise missiles easily with off the shelf products!" but no one talked to him so he made a website about it.

    Either way, sounds like that bird has thoroughly come home to roost.

    • Bernies3trlnKielbasa [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Consumer grade GPS electronics are usually engineered to stop functioning above like 300 mph to prevent exactly this from occurring.

      I will ask no further questions here, though I do have a few!