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The emphasis on secrecy is rather overblown IMHO: there's an entire company (not mentioned in the article!) whose sole business is building/maintaining these ne
by ocfnash 10y ago
The emphasis on secrecy is rather overblown IMHO: there's an entire company (not mentioned in the article!) whose sole business is building/maintaining these networks and they make plenty of information public on their website http://www.mckay-brothers.com/product-page/ http://www.mckay-brothers.com/product-page/
- TheAlchemist 10y agoTrue. But it's the only one (+ Quincy Data, but it's the same company) ! All others are hard to even find on the web
- xhrpost 10y agoI remember reading in a book once that during the cold war, the Soviets used microwave communication partially to get around the Allies snooping on their RF communications. So, the Allies would position satellites such that they were in the line of sight of the microwave links so they could listen in on the extra transmissions that overshot the receiving end.
- dom0 10y agoThis was also a popular technique to intercept microwave links on the ground.
- simosx 10y agoThey recently received investment from an HFT firm (used to be independent), https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/the-brothers-get-a-taste-of-gouda/ https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/the-brothers...