The Hacker Wars

[Lauro Pericles]

Herecomes a looong discussion. Many believe the word hacker should designate the so-called white hat (talented programmer, or an ethical hacker). Others, assume it to mean criminals behind the screen.

After the cutscene inside the Hackerspace, you'll have to go meet the person hacking you. It's a short drive, and will trigger another cutscene. Of course they refuse to help, so it's time to get even.

Once you regain control of Marcus, head around to the back left of the area. There is a large garage here. Climb up top, and use this area as your staging ground to take everyone down. From here, you can stay crouched while hacking into the devices all around the compound.

The great thing about hiding up on this roof, is it's very tough for them to spot you. The area is littered with explosives, so use them to your advantage. Once one thing blows up, it will cause a huge commotion, making it even easier to kill the others as they try to hunt for you. While all this is happening, you can be using your silenced weapons to kill anyone who is alone.

Once you've killed everyone, you'll be able to freely walk around the compound. Go around and interact with all the ATMs to destroy them, and since the area is clear, pick up any items that are located here. Once you've taken down all 3 ATMs, you'll have to leave the area, which shouldn't be an issue with everyone dead.

Drive to the bunker and you'll see a few guards protecting it. There are only a couple, so use a distraction to keep them busy and quickly kill them. Once the area is clear, approach the marked area to enter the bunker.

Once inside, interact with the computer. This will trigger a conversation as you find out the bunker is rigged to explode. This will trigger a hacking event, where you need to hack 4 separate sections of the bunker.

Each of the sections is fairly simple, but there is a twist. After making so much progress, the enemy hacker will jumble up the nodes, forcing you to restart. So although they are simple to hack, it can be time consuming due to this randomization.

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessly evolving struggle between weaponized drones and electronic warfare, a cornerstone of this war.

Weaponized civilian first-person-view (FPV) drones began dramatically reshaping the landscape of the war in the summer of 2023. Prior to this revolution, various commercial drones played critical roles, primarily for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Since 2014, the main means of defending against these drones has been electronic warfare (EW), in its many forms. The iterative, lethal dance between drones and EW has unfolded a rich technological tapestry, revealing insights into a likely future of warfare where EW and drones intertwine.

By spring 2023, as the front lines stabilized following strategic withdrawals and counteroffensives, it was clear that the nature of drone warfare had evolved. Russian defenses had adapted, deploying more sophisticated counter-drone systems. Russian forces were also beginning to use drones, setting the stage for the nuanced cat-and-mouse game that has been going on ever since.

In the war zone, the most popular of these open-source control radio protocols is ExpressLRS, or ELRS. Being open-source, ELRS not only offers more affordable hardware than its main rival, TBS Crossfire, it is also modifiable via its software. It has been hacked in order to use frequency bands other than its original 868 to 915 megahertz. This adaptation produces serious headaches for EW operators, because they have to cover a much wider band. As of March 2024, Ukrainian drone operators are performing final tests on 433-MHz ELRS transmitter-receiver pairs, further challenging prevailing EW methods.

Nevertheless, the most important recent disruption of all in the drone-versus-EW struggle is distributed mass. Instead of an envisioned blitzkrieg-style swarm with big clouds of drones hitting many closely spaced targets during very short bursts, an ever-growing number of drones are covering more widely dispersed targets over a much longer time period, whenever the weather is conducive. Distributed mass is a cornerstone of the emerging transparent battlefield, in which many different sensors and platforms transmit huge amounts of data that is integrated in real time to provide a comprehensive view of the battlefield. One offshoot of this strategy is that more and more kamikaze drones are directed toward a constantly expanding range of targets. Electronic warfare is adapting to this new reality, confronting mass with mass: massive numbers of drones against massive numbers of RF sensors and jammers.

But the EW forces are not standing still. Both sides are either developing or acquiring civilian RF-detecting equipment, while military-tech startups and even small volunteer groups are developing new, simple, and good-enough jammers in essentially the same improvised ways that hackers would.

Two examples illustrate this trend. Increasingly affordable, short-range jammers are being installed on tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks, pickups, and even 4x4s. Although limited and unsophisticated, these systems contribute to drone-threat mitigation. In addition, a growing number of soldiers on the front line carry simple, commercial radio-frequency (RF) scanners with them. Configured to detect drones across various frequency bands, these devices, though far from perfect, have begun to save lives by providing precious additional seconds of warning before an imminent drone attack.

Juan Chulilla is a cofounder of Red Team Shield S.L., a company dedicated to developing defense solutions against weaponized commercial drones. He is a past winner of the NATO SHAPE Serge Lazareff Award and Medal and has consulted with the European Defense Agency (EDA) and the Joint Concept Development Center of the Spanish Armed Forces Joint Staff (CCDC-EMAD) in the fields of weaponized drones and dual-use technologies. Dr. Chulilla teaches courses on counter-drone systems and research at various institutions. He is also a podcaster and writer on transformation and disruption in defense, having written on small drones, battlefield management, and the application of AI in processing unstructured data.

title track from the movie "the hacker wars" here: -hacker-wars/id974783590 -Wars-HD-Barrett-Brown/dp/B00W3DP29G _Wars?id=Zuus3RZas28we run the gamut - freedom fighters griefers banditshackers spammers phreakers gambit just how far back they can ram itsome do damage from the pulpit claim they lead and theyre the culpritothers do it from the shadows switching handles when convenient secret treatmentquestion our agenda troll or internet defender?tango down a packet sender going on a ddos benderwho intend to take a stand drawing lines in the sandin them silicon wafers and them fiberoptic cablestrace enabled pick a side - more than two no black and whiteshades of gray its more like 50 kinky gifted play the system swiftlymoving in and out and under groups to keep it undercovergovernments then wonder how to follow em like thunderso agents of the state coordinate attacks against their ownand other teams compete against each other trying to take the thronemotivations differ so the victory conditions shiftbattleground: the internet - fighting with our fingertipshacker wars - were engaged in a bit of them hacker wars (hacker wars)hacker wars - conflicting over broadband and data stores (hacker wars)hacker wars - were engaged in a bit of them hacker wars (hacker wars)hacker wars - the stakes are high and its a crime just to play on the courseold spaghetti western good bad ugly pick your poisonand each one makes their noise in different ways so let them boys inevery system every outlet every avenue of avaricethe mavericks of information face off with the candidatesand cameras are there to document the struggle live in persontake a peek behind the curtain situations worse thananything the casuals and NPCs could dream ofcause this team of brilliant bastards go on tearing the whole scene upjournalists in media dont buy what they are feeding yadepleting ya of truth because of influential groupsthey dont wanna lose their access so they dont care what the facts islet alone reporting pieces they dont preach nor do they practicelet the hackers be the source of breaking news by breaking into every system every outlet let me say it once againso those hackers with the badges keep their jobs and stay employedon that hacker war perpetual deep into the void

the hook ruins this song yt's second verse on this track is fucking flawless but then you got like a prepubescent sounding kid up on the hook saying "hacker wars" emulating some shining twins kinda tone. put out a remix with a new hook ill bump that shit all day

I am beating him easily enough. He has maybe 10% health left. Way off in the distance I can make out 2 shapes moving super fast... speed hacking. My graphics are on max distance and they cleared that distance in mere seconds.

And if the bald headed spellbreaker reads this. I've beaten you every 1v1 but you always call in speed hackers. I know it. You know it and calling in speed hackers will never change the fact I am better than you and it is eating you up inside.

Not a single outer wall down one at 45% but the enemy is inside. And sadly no. They never had anyone hiding inside. They had a failed attempt at outer water gate, a failed attempt at the NW wall.. then exploit for the win.

Wouldnt be too suprised if you are one of these hackers who "Its just desync bro". Just as recently I'v seen a druid who port on 10% hp to Narnia when about to be killed all the time, very important desync to not die 1500 range away!

oh i know ive seen some dubious gameplay myself many times, it is something that Anet hardly can battle lol all they can do it is mitigate it over time in favor of cheaters to blend them in the gameplay that's how u "eleminate" cheaters, back in early days of the game cheaters would cheat(package injection and 0 delay on skills so they could 1 sec macro burst the target) with the elementalist burst but could be countered with retaliation and high vit guardians they would kill themselves on me while my game almost would crash :D, Anet prefered to remove retaliation., and we never know if the fix that allowed eles to cheat arrived, so some eles can still be cheating idk :) with their macro super fast mega burst.

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