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by sudosysgen 2027 days ago
It's complete bullshit. If there actually were RF attacks of such huge intensities, the US would have trivially recorded them.

Yet that didn't happen. I don't see any reason why no measurements and proof would be measured given the extreme ease of doing so, except that it just didn't happen.
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Sporktacular 2027 days ago
"US would have trivially recorded them."

Depends on the frequency range being continuously monitored. If it's above the usual signals intelligence range there's a good chance it wouldn't have been recorded.

"Yet that didn't happen."

And we wouldn't know if it had. Holding on to what you can detect and attribute carries advantages too.

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sudosysgen 2027 days ago
We're talking about repeated attacks at around 1.4Ghz, so not only within the range of SIGINT, but it would literally fry your phone, and they were supposedly repeated.

As for the last one, if there was proof, then the State Department wouldn't abandon the theory, and such wildly speculative and substance-less research wouldn't be commissioned.

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