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The really astounding part of all this is that hobbyists have been monitoring the exact orbits of all the US spy satellites for years. They know exactly where t
by makomk 7y ago
The really astounding part of all this is that hobbyists have been monitoring the exact orbits of all the US spy satellites for years. They know exactly where they're overhead and when. That kind of capability used to be something that only a handful of states had, and now people just do it from their homes and post it to the internet.
- nexuist 7y ago"Who watches the watchers?" Civilian space nerds!
- smudgymcscmudge 7y ago“but who watched them?” CIA, and we’ve gone full circle.
- text_exch 7y agohttps://xkcd.com/1910/ https://xkcd.com/1910/
- yread 7y agoIndians used this knowledge to hide their first nuclear test at Pokhran from US spy satellites https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19990517-book-extract-from-the-book-weapons-of-peace-780871-1999-05-17 https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/st...