Live via Satellite: NATO Aerial Surveillance Video

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.

Comments

Re:I have the footage on my computer

[Skuld-Chan]

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.

Re:IF YOU TAKE DRUGS, YOU'RE SUPPORTING TERRORISM!

[zcat_NZ]

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.