You may be right... I'm making up my own definitions of active and passive as I don't know how these are legally defined in terms of rules of engagement, etc. and whether or not North Korea gives a rat's ass about what other countries think the definitions are.
Sure. I install a faraday cage around my home. You come over and your cell phone doesn't work. I did this knowing that your cell phone wouldn't work, but I haven't actively done anything to your phone. I've passively interfered with its operation by actively targeting something else -- its dependency on being able to transmit and receive EM signals beyond the confines of my home which are currently blocked by my faraday cage.
Now not knowing the specifics of what North Korea did, I'm only speculating. If they sent a high-intensity EM beam aimed directly at the drone that disrupted the drone's systems then that would be an active measure. On the other hand, if they flooded their airspace such that GPS signals coming from a North-bound direction did not arrive at the drone's location then that would be a passive measure. It's the difference between overloading the drone's GPS receiver (active) and producing a signal inverse to the GPS signal, thereby canceling it out and little to no signal arrives to the drone (passive).
And North Korea is a signatory to these agreements?
Except for the green Matrix code-style walls, I thought it was much more like Tron (the original movie).
In the end, we haven't seen the contract, the bids, nor the RFP so there's no point continuing to argue based on assumptions.
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They probably asked for genuine Cisco equipment and awarded the contract to the lowest bidder who, unbeknownst to them, used counterfeit products.
Jamming GPS is active against GPS. It's passive against a device that uses GPS.
By that measure, installing a faraday cage around my home would sabotage your cell phone.
My question was whether it is legally considered sabotage. As in: what law or treaty would such an action violate?
Thank you for making an assumption about what I do or do not understand.
However it was not available for purchase for 99% of the people who wanted to watch it, so people pirated it.
Because it's a basic human right to be able to consume other people's content on your own terms.
Inertial guidance is nothing new, it was developed in the 1930s, German V1 and V2 missiles used it.
V1s did not, they just had a simple gyroscope.
Which had no inertia?
It was passively interfered with by preventing its use of GPS. Is that legally considered sabotage?
My iPad displays its WiFi signal strength in kilopascals, or you can change this in the settings to display millimeters of mercury.
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