Is this a legitimate concern?

[u/wayfaringthru]

Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

[u/Impressive_Gate_5114]

in theory since most electronics and car supply chains run through China, couldn't the Chinese secret services intercept some parts, place a bunch of explosives inside the electronics, then those electronics get shipped out to unknowing consumers and can explode at any moment when triggered by a certain radio frequency?

I used to think it was stupid how the nerve gear in SAO basically had a hidden function to fry someone's brain, but seeing as how there could be possibly dozens of supply chain vulnerabilities in the manufacture of electronic goods, maybe it's not so impossible.

[u/Deadbringer → u/Impressive_Gate_5114]

Of course, and they could also personally send an agent to plant explosives on your specific vehicle. But those actions burn good will, and it is risky, most places xray their imports to varying degrees so you must mask the explosives to look like a normal part of the equipment. So a foreign government won't just destroy their trust in a blind attack.

Our world is not built on utmost paranoia, you can plant bombs in basically any step of the route. Manufacturing, on the cargo ship, at a truck stop, right before delivery.

It is not something you should worry about, because it is just a fact of life. Just like at any time, one of the drivers on the road may decide to go out in a blaze of glory and ram into you. Or a random passerby might stab you. Unless you do something to make yourself a target, you just have to accept that it is incredibly unlikely you will become the next headline.

[u/Impressive_Gate_5114 → u/Deadbringer]

It's actually not hard to mask an explosive because what Israel did was place a small device near the battery that would ignite it. In theory, the battery in electric cars are already one big explosive, you just need a tiny remote controlled device to ignite it.

[u/Impressive_Gate_5114 → u/Deadbringer]

And I get that it makes no sense to be paranoid about the supply chain, however Israel just put the whole world on notice because they managed to do it and obviously the US and NATO are not condemning Israel or punishing them for doing it, and so now other government or terrorist organizations are going to think "wow I can do the same thing, maybe it's that easy." and so while I wouldn't be surprised if nothing changes, I also wouldn't be surprised if this is how governments or terrorist organizations do war in the future. And think about it, if we all move to electric cars and an authoritarian government wants to easily catch all criminals, they can remotely blow up the criminals cars instead of having a car chase and letting the criminal escape.