tedrick@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) (04/13/91)
From: tedrick@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) My understanding is that the Patriot system relies on some complicated software. Since one of my hobbies is finding weird things to do that can exploit weaknesses in flawed programs (doing unexpected things that a sane programmer wouldn't likely think of, often uncovers radical flaws in either the coding, or algorithms involved :-), I started wondering what weird things could be done with missiles, that might cause the Patriot system software to screwup. In general, I wonder what weird things could be done with weapons systems to cause enemy software screwups. This kind of thing might even be decisive in some future war. A new kind of unconventional warfare perhaps :-) [ Please reply directly to Mr. Tedrick; unless its directly relevant to the charter of sci.military, not speculation. --CDR]