[wolrah]

> If your device is hacked at the firmware level, it can be turned into a microwave weapon and used against you. (My hypothesis of the cause of Havana Syndrome: hacked cell transmitters beaming microwave at targets.)

No, no it can't. It is physically impossible for any part of cellular infrastructure, be it the phones or the base stations, to direct enough power at an arbitrary person to cause any effect. Phones simply don't have the power to harm a human and the inverse square law means that even high power base stations are safe from more than a few feet.

[Gnarl]

You may want to consider this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279863242_Oxidative...

TLDR; 93/100 available studies (2015) confirm that low-intensity RF causes oxidative-stress mediated tissue damage (incl. DNA damage) and is implicated in a wide range of cancer and non-cancer pathologies.

TLDR2; its not just about power levels.

[wolrah]

There is a massive gap between "Long term RF exposure can cause cell behaviors that may have subtle effects" from the paper you linked and "Hacked cell infrastructure can be weaponized" as the parent poster was claiming.

I'm an IT nerd, not a molecular biologist, so I can't really comment on the paper in detail but a quick skim gives me the impression that whatever effect they're measuring is both subtle and generally not directly linkable to the kind of effects a person would actually notice.

Something that could be used to cause targeted injury would have to be multiple orders of magnitude more powerful. The most effective way to weaponize hacked cellular infrastructure would be accessing the data traveling over it, not a fantastical idea of turning it in to a RF blaster.