This cyber-retro-reflector technology is a series of Architectures, representing staged deployments, including backward compatibility, of products with enhanced features, for integrating technologies and capabilities, of electronic and photonic systems to: (a) reduce power consumption for circuits and systems that are placed into ‘off’ and/or disabled states, including external interface portals of electronic and photonic systems, (b) increase and enhance intra-/inter-connectivity, interoperability, and functionality of a system and the aggregate of systems, (c) increase and enhance integrated capabilities leading to higher computational performance for the system and the aggregate of systems, (d) take full advantage of photonic capabilities, and (e) improve hacking detection.