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PEnns Well this is just dandy. This means, it is eventually possible that some superpower could cause most (if not all of its adversary's) satellites, military or not, to come crashing down at the start of a major conflict! Reply
jp7189 Time to bring those old junkers in to a decaying orbit and put up some modern replacements. Ok yeah, your adversaries should play nice and not hack you insecure networks, but thats not an excuse to neglect the upgrades. From another angle: if you find out two large medical companies are exchanging health records via insecure means and hackers have accessed them.. Who are you going to be mad at? Reply
derekullo PEnns said: Well this is just dandy. This means, it is eventually possible that some superpower could cause most (if not all of its adversary's) satellites, military or not, to come crashing down at the start of a major conflict! Mutually Assured Youtube Outage … MAYO Reply
Spuwho Admin said: European officials believe that two Russian “Inspector” SIGINT spacecraft operating in geostationary orbit have intercepted communications from at least a dozen European satellites. Russian 'Inspector' spacecraft intercepted communications from a dozen European satellites, report claims — fears Moscow could even manipulate traj… : Read more Ivan has been launching butt sniffs for over 40 years. Why is this news now? Just last year the US NRO launched a eagle eye with a polar orbit and when it came up to Moscow on its first fly over, the Russians launched a Kosmos immediately from Plestesk and inserted itself directly behind the NRO platform. The issue was the fact that the Russian launch was not registered and so the USSF thought it might be an interceptor to take out the NRO platform. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed. The Ivan tagged along for the ride still to this day. Reply
bit_user Tanakoi said: But the war profits machine won't operate unless we can continue to drum up more anti-Russian fervor. Characterizing this as "drumming up" seems like gaslighting. A country which has actively engaged in these activities needs to be taken seriously: The article said: such activity would be decidedly on-brand for a country that continues to bait the West with disinformation bots, cyberattacks, drones, incursions into sovereign waters, and de facto attacks on undersea cables. Or do you believe the official line that the "Inspector" satellite is really just there to look after Russia's own satellites? Reply
USAFRet Sigh…. As this thread descends into the typical political claptrap, more than one member here is looking at a warning or a short term ban. Lets not do this, OK? Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russian-inspector-satellites-suspected-of-intercepting-european-communications#main
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