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How will this change events like G20, Copenhagen, or Davos?

Will the powerful be able to meet in an extravagant fashion like this ever again?

Will they ever be so brash as to say stuff like this[0] in public again?

What happens when the first billionaire is taken down by a $1000 drone?

They can take down whatever online presence they want but it won't be enough to hide from a motivated person or group of people.

What comes next?

[0] https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tim-gurner-austr...

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Expect extra security and physical spacing in enclaves, luxury hotels, etc.

I doubt this is going to be copied soon. But the temperature of discontent is being raised, and fhe extraction of rent by our oligarchs along with the cost pollution forced into all of American life will jar loose a few more events over time. [https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-assassin-showed-just-h...] which was posted elsewhere on HN today highlights human nature as why the Sherman Anti-Trust Act is a good idea.

> How will this change events like G20, Copenhagen, or Davos?

Nothing will change, have you seen the security apparatus of G20? They literally turn any place into a fortress.

Visit Canary Wharf or City of London and most of the infrastructure for barricading or lock down is already there.

What is unexpected to me is that this starts with Healthcare when my expectation would have been Oil and Gas first.

> What comes next?

A. They find him and he gets accidentally murdered during arrest so that he never sits in front of a jury.

B. They never find him and a copycat trend begins.

If Russian tanks are vulnerable to drones how can the same be said of any of the places you describe?

No fly zones, RF jammers, Police forces themselves are equipped with counter offense drones. I am sure there are even more counter measures not known to the public or disclosed.

After 9/11 all major wealth epicentres really started taking security a lot more seriously beyond just plain robbery.

Comparing them to out dated and corrupt armed force is selling them short.

There's a lot of security theater.

I think everything that you said is false.

But let's say that it isn't. Just for the sake of argument.

Will it still hold against $100 drones? $50 drones? $10 drones?

History is replete with examples of lessons of the eternal struggle between offense and defense. While we have come of age in a time where defense has conquered offense there is no guarantee that this will remain the status quo.

If we are entering a period where offense exceeds the capabilities of defense how will the wealthy respond? In the age of technology destroying the status quo is there any reason to believe that this will extend to the status quo of the wealthy having an advantagous defensive posture?

What does the future where anyone can fuck someone elses shit up without regard to their social status look like?

Drones are pretty loud, just not tank loud.

Taking out a tank requires a team of trained operators with multiple attack drones, reconnaissance drones (possibly deployed by a separate team), usually a minefield, and constant innovation to overcome electronic warfare and new types of improvised armor. All of this would be difficult to accomplish in a civilian context, especially under adversarial conditions.

Even if you think that this can somehow be circumvented with improvements in drone technology, think about who has an easier time using it - the state or would-be assassins.

Assassinations have been a thing for thousands of years and a lot more people were a lot more angry for long stretches of history. Trump alone faced two attempts this year (one almost got him, and killed a bystander). Shinzo Abe was gunned down by a rando two years ago. WWI was started by one, same goes for many other wars. Not sure why you think this is anything new.

We got Teddy Roosevelt and the trust busting era because of an assassination.

Davis already had snipers on every roof.

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