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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4980122" data-attributes="member: 59506">So true. Like with the aforementioned EM problem, such defense is common in military systems, but virtually unknown in civilian systems.  Pretty much everything we use today has some form of electronics in it, and every single one of them is vulnerable to EM and large RF signals.  That's what made the show Jericho so interesting. As with so many things, it seems it takes some kind of problem or disaster to prove the need for something before the expenditure is considered worth it. In a future, cyber punk type setting, I'd probably make the assumption that such events have happened, and as a result, all electronics have some kind of protection built into them.  But there will more than likely, always be a difference between civilian and military grade hardware.</blockquote>