alt Hacker NewsIf you're honestly worried about being bombed then you need to buy radar.
With your logic all I have to do is take the additional step of disabling your cellular infrastructure before I steam up to your port.
This is not a tactical solution. It can only be for convenience or cost savings. In that realm, AIS is the obvious answer.
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denkmoon • yesterday at 3:42 AM
Ukraine war shows improvised capability from cots hardware can have a meaningful impact. Probably easier to get 5g cell tower infrastructure than dedicated military radars.
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timschmidt • yesterday at 2:40 AM
It can also be used for defense in depth. Each additional sensing system which must be disabled before an attack is an additional barrier.
AIS is not mandatory for all vessels, and in any case it can fail both on the vessels themselves and in the control center. Just for normal safety purposes you would want to have a secondary system to be able to continue operating busy ports.