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Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites
blantonl writes "Brazilians all over the country are using modified amateur radio equipment to communicate with each other using US Military communications satellites — effectively creating their own CB radio network on the backs of the US Military. Recent efforts to crack down have resulted in arrests of some of the users, however the behavior still continues today."
That's a lot of pirates.
thousands of Brazilians
Trazilians, you mean, surely.
The street finds its own uses for things
still using aging FLTSAT and UFO satellites
Those UFO satellites might be dated, but the technology on board sure isn't.
Costs a buck an ear!
HAHAHAHAHAH
I kill me.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
...would be to give the crews of these satellites some weapons to fend off the pirates.
Yes, they are Brazilian. They have full waxing.. including their peg-legs.
Ninjas don't leave evidence nor any other trace , kinda part of being a ninja. See if a Ninja hijacked a ship they'd also erase all traces of its existence; yes they are very thorough. Then after they were done with that they'd whip out an electric guitar and rock hard. (all my assumptions are based of 80's Ninja movies)
But how can you steal a frequency? :)
By letting scallywags grabbing bandwidth from the landlubbers.
Unless Brazil has laws against doing that, it's legal in Brazil. Doesn't matter what the US military thinks.
I honestly can't remember a time when the US government ever thought that way.
Internet scofflaw
If you would have bothered to RTFA, you would have discovered that the primary users of this system are truck drivers and loggers.
But whatever floats your boat....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
durka durka, muhammad jihad.
We can just train an army of sharpshooters and have them fire their guns straight up when the satellite passes over. Each one would be aiming for a different Brazilian pirate.
We get their soccer team and call it even. Deal?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Oh, you can always turn it off. :)
If i pirate Music with these Satellites, does the RIAA sue the US Navy for "facilitators of illegal downloading" ?
I would be thrilled to read in the newspapers the next day that RIAA lawyers were water boarded 183 times by the marines...
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
The USA thought long and hard about this. They needed to shift data around the world and sniff for it. Huge amounts, everyday, all day. The last thing that would help is a big slow computer up in space. Encrypt, bounce (in space), decrypt You can swap out the ground stations and systems if the Soviets got the info. Swapping out a satellite is a pain. Back in the cold war all the Soviets could do was read encrypted traffic. Anyone can bounce their own 'data' too. US 'training' staff and private 'consultants' will track your position as you are transmitting. Now your "arrested" ie your not up on condortel for the SNI to "find".
Burma-shave.
No, that would be the BBS. Which at least limited the whining to "one at a time".
"But this one goes to 11!"
It's true that our current income tax system is complex...
This is certainly an exciting off-topic thread. We really ought to have a poll/discussion on the merits of different forms of taxation!
I am not a crackpot.
Unless you have a club.
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.