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by truxten 1874 days ago
The Wikipedia article[0], has some interesting speculation about this. Main ideas behind the cause seems to be either some directed energy pulse or potentially a ultrasound weapon. These kind of invisible weapons are utterly terrifying to me and I feel that they'll just become more prevalent in the coming decades.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
4 comments
viro 1874 days ago
So this a super hot take, but someone is asking for an ass whooping. This is basically an act of war. I'm going to just leave it at that. This isn't some random hack, kinetic attack demands kinetic response.
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encryptluks2 1874 days ago
And what if the US was the one who created the technology and started using it first?
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viro 1874 days ago
Who ever made the order to use it on non-soldiers in a non-combat zone should go to jail for life.
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nickkell 1874 days ago
Who exactly would you like to go to war with? The martians?
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viro 1874 days ago
Who ever is intently committing war crimes against diplomats on American soil. did you not read the brain damage part?
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atat7024 1874 days ago
Attribution is hard with digital attacks.

In hacker communities, it's considered best practice to avoid making enemies — a good policy.

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ethanbond 1874 days ago
As mentioned, this is a kinetic attack.

Attribution will still be hard, but the motivation to attribute (correctly) will be much much higher than most cyber attacks.

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nomel 1874 days ago
It seems like some wideband audio and RF sensors would be able to easily detect this. If it's skull penetrating, I doubt you would even have to place them that densely to detect something out of the ordinary, regardless of the directionality of the source.

There's probably a government contract opportunity for a wearable detector here.

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floam 1874 days ago
The recent National Academies study for the Department of State seemed to not think it is ultrasonic: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Ha...

Some kind of pulsed RF/microwave seemed to be the most likely?

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thoughtstheseus 1874 days ago
Thank you for sharing this. It’s helpful to see that others have put substantial work into this problem.
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vondur 1874 days ago
How focused would this need to be to target this particular area? Shouldn’t we see people nearby also affected?
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