Quantum of Solace

See the palisades of zeros and ones that lead folks to cry

Fed to a hungry machine that requires data feeds to ply

Raytheon and Lockheed - parading over the sky

We are those to whom Jaitly’s, Khan’s, and Gupta’s flock

When they suddenly need a pebble from Chingis’s rock

This week I saw for the first time, from one of our customers, a civil use case where officers used a drone to lock in on someones cellphone and leak/stream all the data off of it from hundreds of feet away, while it was turned off, to a server 400km away from the target, in a matter of seconds. For search and rescue this is a game changer, but it also could be used in many fucked up ways which I’m concerned about.

“Bashir, everyone knows… Bass leads the band, and you can’t pick who gets to fly”

It’s from الله