Hardware (TPM) will secure it!

IP addresses for every vehicle, weapon, etc? Sounds like very serious hacking potential to worry about in the future if you ask me. Why connect anything to a network that isn't absolutely necessary?

What happens when an enemy steals a device that's on that so called secure network in a future like that? Would that give them visibility into the rest of the network with enough information to determine location of other units and types of units?

How about consideration given to the proximity of other units? Friendly, protected wifi transmissions using whatever encyrption scheme they may come up with in the future may still give away proximity if someone was able to detect transmissions, which shouldn't be difficult to do. Perhaps the line of thinking is that wifi networking will be so common in some settings that there will still be security by obscurity, at least to some degree with respect to unit proximity detection?

Either way, it still sounds like a huge security challenge to me. Do the benefits truly outweigh the risks to consider something like this?

Just a few thoughts, but I thought the article was very interesting.

Darnell