Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "The role of smartphones in modern war" video.

One thing I want to point out about 'the internet will go down' circa 22:30 is the historical precedent of radar in WW2. "Why didn't the German airforce just knock out the radars?" is sometimes heard. Well, even with a system like that, much fewer in nodes and much more vulnerable than the internet structure, it was undoable to knock it out. The internet can be damaged or in low-infrastructure areas of mobile phone connection only, maybe disabled, but knocking out the internet? It'll never happen. There's too much of it.
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When I served we were issued a locked-down Blackberry. Not sure what they did to it, but non-approved apps simply didn't install on it no matter what. And Blackberry phones are banned in 3 countries for being too safe so they can't spy on people.
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