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by kritiko 1751 days ago
You’re absolutely right. One of the affected people claimed in an article that I read that they were attacked in the street in the middle of DC. If this tech exists and is really so portable, seems like you could do a lot more damage than just making some CIA and State Department employees retire early.
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believe it or not, denying enemy spies from operating in a location, either directly, or via fear of direct action, is really useful for your own covert operations
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/are-us-officia...

This New Yorker article from May alleges that somebody was hit on the grounds of the White House, one of the most heavily surveilled areas of the world... it's really hard for me to accept that there is a secret, highly portable tech that leaves no clear evidence and this is how it's being used.

there are more things in this world, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

technology-wise, we humans are just fancy cavemen with fire

(also, we don't know that this is portable)

So, we should call the Ghostbusters?