Recently we read about the Hackers annual convention this year in Las Vegas, DEFCON. Indeed there were many people in attendance, including military onlookers who were both concerned about the future and intrigued by the hacking ability and skills of these brilliant and borderline criminals.

In fact the military learned that it was possible to receive a WiFi signal and that someone built a device that could read a signal 125 miles away. This means in wireless technology of this sort is used, whether encrypted or not, the enemy can sense us and locate our transmissions. It is like homing beacon. And before we know they are there they could fire first and we end up with casualties. In the new type of warfare, early detection and accurate firing will win. Just like our Apaches can see those Enemy Tanks and fire on them and they never even saw them?

One interesting issue would be that we could pre-plant WiFi systems in the sand, they think we are there, they fire on a Bluff of a "Mirage Blue Force" MBF, and we see the firing launch locations and shoot them first. Your basic Decoy city, you see sometimes having extra decoy networks can catch the hackers first, detect, track, identify, capture. So, sometimes having a duplication decoy system, you can use the system to catch the bad guys early on. We could deliver these devices and drop them in the sand via homing pigeon, which cannot be detected and they would turn on, on impact.

Hackers are an interesting group, interesting psychological study. Curiosity seems to be an innate human trait, these hackers are not DUMB PEOPLE. In fact they rank extremely high on IQ tests despite their Hollywood Stereotypes and persona. We can learn a lot from the Hackers, if we will listen and it appears they have everyones attention at the Pentagon right about now. Think on this.