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Whoever paid for that grenade doesn't trust the soldier / mercenary they gave it to very far, that's why the network connection exists in the first place, hackers can exploit that.

At least that's the reason I just made up.



More likely it needs a continuous connection back to the license server for GaaS (grenades as a service).

(This kind of cyberpunk dystopia is very plausible from the intersection of military contracting grift and lowest-bidder IoT design!)



This shows how hard it is to write sci-fi when I was joking about "grenades as a service" - someone's gone one better and made a wifi mesh network of landmines!

And then converted the landmines to remote-operated as part of a legal fiction about victim-operated devices. Which is the military version of the concern about robots taking jobs: to what extent is it acceptable to have munitions making their own decisions about taking lives?

Anyway, in the Shadowrun universe you'd definitely be able to hack the mesh network of landmines.


I figured you were joking, sadly I just figured something like that had already been thought up and deployed.


+1 for 'intended to replace the Matrix remote trigger system'


> More likely it needs a continuous connection back to the license server for GaaS (grenades as a service).

The US allegedly has something like this for MANPADS missiles given to not-so-trusted allies.

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10642-harry_potter_and_the_not-s...


"You throw 'em, We blow 'em"


If your army doesn't continue paying their license for their weapons, the weapons stop working just when you need them.


Did You Forget Anyone? Militant Flowers can help.


ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.

Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control… everything is monitored and kept under control.

War… has changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUf_8jyxbiM



It’s so you can’t throw the grenade back at the manufacturer.




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