Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-soon-we're-talking-real-money dept.

Korsair25 points out this article about a U.S. spy satellite program. "Quote: 'Over the decades, spying from space has always earned super-secret status. They are the black projects, fulfilling dark tasks and often bankrolled by blank check.' It also talks about some of the technology used to disguise or camouflage some of the operational satellites."

3 of 370 comments (clear)

  1. Shut Up Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Bush is only trying to protect us from TERRARISTS!!

    1. Re:Shut Up Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Um... Bush SENIOR... *cough*

      Jr. was still drunk and snorting coke like a fiend while failing to find oil in Texas and trading away Sammy Sosa, among other things.

  2. Is this really a good idea? by Gay+Nigger · · Score: -1, Troll
    I doubt that this journalist really meant to hurt his country buy writing his story, but is it really such a wise idea to leak such sensitive information to the public? Even now, America's numerous enemies could be reading this article and probing out the weaknesses in the system that is exposed by all this unintentional public disclosure.

    I think it's time for journalists to get a serious code of ethics. They should not be out to harm the country that pays for their lifestyle and even explicitly protects the right to do their jobs. I hope that this article is reconsidered swiftly before it causes even more harm to U.S. national security.