You could fly $300 drones around an airport and that would pose a significant enough safety hazard that would likely shutdown all traffic. Or shine those high powered laser pointers at the planes.
Disrupting society is remarkably easy if you draw outside the lines.
Remarkably easy - but at the price of facing full wrath in return and destroying your life.
Thread was in the context of terrorism, so I thought that much was a given.
Afaik no one has yet caught the “jetpack/drone” that would occasionally fly around lax. Pretty busy airport loaded with defense contractors nearby, should be hard to walk away from something like that but it happens.
A guy I talked to the other month will as a summer intern be tasked with trying to build a drone detection and jamming system.
It's not as if the other option will get you a slap on the wrist.
This happened in the United Kingdom, a prankster flying a drone managed to halt flights at Gatwick, then not so long later managed to also halt departures from Heathrow.
It's not hard to find people using MANPADS like the Stinger after they start shooting. The first one might suprise you but after that they're going to locate you and then figure out everyone you've ever talked to and bust your cell wide open in a matter of hours.
You don't need stingers. Airport IT breaks down every 2 days for free.
I think the US is a bit idiosyncratic in that it uses trucks more than most other countries. The saying amongst teamsters/truckers (often attributed to Jimmy Hoffa) would be, "if you got it, a truck brought it". We also use rail for a lot of heavy goods. Another weird quirk of the US is that the constitution should probably allow private ownership of such weapons according to modern interpretation.
People get so fixated on the wrong points of the second amendment. “Right to bear arms” then the mind closes. Where’s my well regulated militia that was deemed necessary to defend the Free State on the other hand?