Ukraine Is the First "Hackers' War"

It is not, it is just the last one.

Artillery was a hack against cavalry. And cavalry and the carriage was a hack against infantry. It is said that Archimedes used mirrors to burn the enemy fleet. Ships with metal plates were a hack at first like putting inside cannons or flamethrowers.

The first repetition gun was a hack. The first gun that could pass the plane propellers was a hack. The detonation fuse(with radar) was a hack. The first radar detection systems of Germans and English were hacks. They came after the sound detection of planes hacks.

The Chinese used kites with children in war in order to see the enemy from above, certainly a hack. Later people used hot air balloons. The first planes were hacks at first, throwing bombs with your hand and photographing the enemy side or damage reports or correction for artillery kilometres away from sight.

Perun's video from last week was a bit more illuminating in discussing the higher level impact of drone technology on this war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJnuTtUFiWM

Disagree. The fight with ISIS had a strong cyber dimension, with blockchain being a major funding source for them.

Cellphone tracking/hacking was also key, and multiplayer games were recruiting arenas.

Before that cyber played a key role in other conflicts, especially "cold" ones (re: Stuxnet).

According to HN, duct-taping RPG warheads to drones built from COTS parts running open source software that you've modified to run in different frequency bands to foil electronic attacks isn't hacking. This entire war has been a hardware hacking arena with rapid iteration.

I'd say the title fits, the rate at which they iterate and get these things to the front and the outsized role that they play in shaping the battlefield really is a first.

Anything for clicks I guess.

Nope. Read up on the scientists who 'hacked' a way to disrupt the German radio beams that intersected over the British bombing targets around 1940. There was a book about 20-30 years ago about that famous British scientist, R.V. Jones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

This is the second IEEE article I've read and it's as awful as the first (I forgot what the first one was even, I only remember that it was awful). What's going on?

> a vibrant war startup scene is emerging

Barf