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Live via Satellite: NATO Aerial Surveillance Video

Posted by michael on from the run-another-T-1 dept.

Factomatic writes "The BBC is reporting 'NATO surveillance flights in the Balkans are beaming their pictures over an insecure satellite link - and anyone can tune in and watch their operations live.' All you need is a satellite dish. John Locker tapped into the NATO aerial surveillance feed over the Balkans from England and has been e-mailing, faxing and calling NATO since November to get them to fix the problem. NATO denies it is a problem at all. I wonder if this would work in Afghanistan, too?" No, the article notes that Afghanistan is taking up all the secure communications bandwidth, and operations in the Balkans are getting kicked over to unencrypted channels. We ran an older story about the military's growing bandwidth crunch.

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  1. Re:I have the footage on my computer by cetan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's funny. Me pointing out the ignorance of others getting marked as a troll.

    Ah slashdot, how I knew you well.

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  2. Re:I have the footage on my computer by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    sigh - I guess if you watched the clip you'd notice the planes are shipping pictures back to a satellite uplink.

    Definately not sattelite photo's - problem with sattelite photo's is the exposure time to get a nice colour picture like that... most sattelite close ups I've seen are black and white.

  3. Re:IF YOU TAKE DRUGS, YOU'RE SUPPORTING TERRORISM! by zcat_NZ · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So what you're saying is:

    • If you buy drugs you're providing justification for the 'war on drugs'
    • The 'war on drugs' has resulted in US money being paid directly to terrorist organisations in Columbia, Afghanistan and South America.
    QED: If you buy drugs, you're supporting terrorisim. The conclusion is logically sound.
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  4. I always knew the military was ignorant, but� by kiwipeso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This takes the cake, what a pack of ignorant fools they are.

    Sure, I'm in a lot of crap with those people for merely wishing to maintain the illusion of privacy of private information, but if this isn't straight out of "Planet of the Apes", then I don't know what is.

    Are these people in contact with their inner monkey, or just shaking about with it ?

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  5. Re:Hmm... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Auuuh come on, this way it gets on CNN 5 minutes faster than normal.

  6. Re:IF YOU TAKE DRUGS, YOU'RE SUPPORTING TERRORISM! by hpeg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Weren't people told to grow hemp and marijuana to help with the war effort in WWI? Mind you, that was for ropes and clothes, you can't fight a war stoned... Hmmm, now there's an idea.

  7. Re:ObMonty Python by Retron · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe something similar could work with love bomb feeds?

    Wow - I wonder what one of those would look like? ;)