5 Tricks To Designing A Drone-Proof City

Start with a chaotic jumble of apartment buildings, like Canada's Habitat 67

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In this complex and overlapping community, it would be hard for drone pilots to identify or describe where a target is located.

Next, place tall minarets around the area to deter low-flying drones. These spires can also serve as lookout towers.

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Next, Iranian-designed badgirs, or wind towers, serve an important surveillance function—as well as providing more lookout towers and low-flying drone deterrence.

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These towers are used as an alternative to electricity and air conditioning in areas of the world where it's hot during the day and cold at night.

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Kohn theorizes that evenly distributed heat at night would serve as a smoke screen for roving infrared drones.

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Fourth, design windows that can't be seen through from the outside.

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Kohn quips that a decent hacker could embed malicious QR-Code into the windows — so a scan could signal the drones to crash themselves.

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Finally there's the roof, a complex, irregular web of cris-crossing, heated lines that confuse drone-sight.

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They could even be outfitted with LED lights, pointed skyward, to further blind the flying bots.

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Put it all together, and a drone's ability to engage from airliner-high altitudes would be greatly mitigated.

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Instead, the military, CIA, or whoever wants to kill you, would have to rely on direct human intelligence, possibly raids. As you can see here, human intelligence is incredibly complex.

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This slide is the last slide of a complex procedure most often referred to as HUMINT, or human intelligence. The first slide starts with just two blocks, the person seeking intelligence, and the first contact of a potential "asset" — Silk Man

The final slide shows how many degrees it takes to gather intel the traditional way, on the ground. A process that takes a long time compared to watching with high-definition cameras from 26,000 feet overhead.

Human intelligence: not quite as easy as shooting at you from an easy-chair in Vegas.

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