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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?"

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  1. US to Europe: deal with it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    For once in your miserable lives.

    You go in and clean up the mess. After all Libya is supplying your oil.

    Or blithely drive around in your BMW's and Fiats talking about how civilized your are.

    You finc