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Congratulations. You might be one of the few to survive the Cylon attack.

The Cylons will probably start their attack with some fake 2G cell towers, taking over all of the old IoT stuff.

I'm not certain - assuming their goals are consistent with other depictions they'll probably come armed with pre-wireless technology spoofing devices and a serial or parallel port so they can actually interact with and take over missile control systems.

Some day we might find an uneasy peace with the machines when we desperately admit we need their advanced technological capabilities to bridge PS/2 to USB-c so we can keep using our clicky IBM Model-M keyboards.

Does this explain the plot to Independence Day ;)?

They’ll probably need to start with a blue box to get remote access, and then we can blame everything on Steve.

Shhhh, that's how I work on reverse engineering old IoT stuff! SDR, loose admit-all policies, extremely low power, figure out what APNs and info it wants, and start capturing requests from it.

I love my 09 Jetta being one of the last years available without all of this nonsense.

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