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Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers

Posted by timothy on from the gentlemen-do-not-kill-a-bunch-of-citizens dept.

h00manist writes "Libya's Gaddafi apparently loves radio hacking. Signal jamming is being used to disable Thuraya satellite phones. Also being jammed is satellite TV network provider Arabsat, affecting vast areas in the Middle East, Gulf, Africa and Europe. Cellphone and internet transmissions are working only intermittently. Soldiers are confiscating electronics, too. This has gone on for days, allowing killing to be carried out largely hidden from the rest of the world, quite different from what happened in Egypt. The locations of the jamming signals are known to company executives — around the capital, Tripoli — but nobody can do anything. Only POTS is available, and it is monitored. Technically speaking, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?"

7 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. Could be worse by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could be going with SIGKILL. Of course, SIGQUIT would be a nice improvement.

    --
    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
    1. Re:Could be worse by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think that they have already gone to SIGKILL

  2. Re:What next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    If gaddafi is let to his crazyness, tiananmen will look like a boy scouts meeting.

    Except with less inappropriate touching...

  3. Re:Options against jamming: by wampus · · Score: 1, Funny

    And put up a big billboard in Arabic that says something along the lines of "AIM SHELLS HERE."

  4. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best tweet: "I hope programmers worldwide will join me in calling for M[ou]'?am+[ae]r .*([AEae]l[- ])? [GKQ]h?[aeu]+([dtz][dhz]?)+af[iy] to step down."

  5. You know who has experience dealing with Libyans? by mykos · · Score: 4, Funny
    I was in high school back in '85, doing odd jobs for this wealthy freelance scientist, Emmett Brown.. Anyway, long story short, he used some creative methods into tricking Libyans into giving him what he wanted. They gave him plutonium to make a bomb, but he used it in a wild science experiment instead...you wouldn't believe me if I told you.

    I'm sure Doc Brown is still around somewhere, haven't talked to him in a while since he got married and had a couple kids.

  6. Re:Solution? by Patch86 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The damned place is on the brink of civil war, with angry mobs and half the army on one side, smaller mobs with the rest of the army and some foreign mercenaries on the other. Do you realy think handing out assult rifles at the dockside to whoever wants one is really the best idea? Are you the kind of person who thinkgs the best way to clear up a petrol spill at a filling station is with matches?

    Actually, don't answer that.