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Stealing? The NOAA satellites exist for you to receive the signals; the NOAA even offers a detailed guide on how to build a receiver: https://noaasis.noaa.gov/
by jrockway 6y ago
Stealing? The NOAA satellites exist for you to receive the signals; the NOAA even offers a detailed guide on how to build a receiver: https://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/pubs/Users_Guide-Building_Receive_Stations_March_2009.pdf https://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/pubs/Users_Guide-Building_R...
The introduction even reads like this art project: "Satellites provide us with a unique and long-sought after opportunity to look at Earth
from space. These spacecraft now enable us to observe and measure the many forces of nature
which converge on our planet. Mankind can now observe the global nature of the environmental
factors which interact to form the complex systems we call Earth. From the unique vantage point
of space, sophisticated environmental/weather satellites bring us information about cloud
formations and movements, precipitation amounts, temperatures, ocean currents, sea surface
temperatures, air and water pollutants, drought and floods, severe weather conditions, vegetation,
insect infestations, ozone content of the atmosphere, volcano eruptions, and other factors that
affect our daily lives. They have also provided us with less tangible aesthetic values which help
shape attitudes about the environment of this planet. This global attitude is, perhaps, just as
important as the hard data that the satellites provide."
I was hoping that this was some security vulnerability that let you receive images from private satellites.
- globular-toast 6y agoEven if the satellites are private, it is intercepting, not stealing.
- birdyrooster 6y agoAlso (especially if it’s got sufficiently high resolution) it is almost certainly encrypted with Aes-256 or similar.
- londons_explore 6y agoEarly satellites, of which there may still be a few active, had analogue sensors and analogue modulation. Can't AES encrypt analogue... Sure, various analogue scrambling schemes are possible, but they degrade the signal and add a lot of risk to the mission so theres a good chance they weren't used.
- gruez 6y agoSome call copyright infringement "stealing" as well. Also, "stealing" someone's idea.
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- kube-system 6y agoWorks by the US government are generally in the public domain and not eligible for copyright.
- mc32 6y agoHmmm. When someone steals another person’s notes or homework, I guess it could be called interception, but really it’s taking someone else’s work who hasn’t volunteered to give it to you and stealing is more appropriate. Now, if it’s public, that’s different.
- _jal 6y agoLegally, theft is taking some physical object from the legitimate owner through dishonest means. I don't think you're describing the theft of some pieces of paper here. Colloquially, people use the word more loosely. There is nothing inherently wrong with either use. The problem happens when there is confusion about which sense is being used. The legacy copyright rentiers of course do this deliberately.
- mc32 6y agoWhat is taking IP? You discover an antiviral for SARS-Cov2. Someone takes it without consent or permission? What is that, legally?
- vmh1928 6y agoDon't want your work intercepted? Just keep your radio signals out of my yard. Simple.
- madaxe_again 6y agoI remember being awestruck in about 1992, when our science teacher at school used an antenna and, I think a BBC micro, although it may have been an acorn, to receive images from weather satellites passing overhead. It was a brilliant educational experience. Edit: looks like it was a BBC Micro, using AMSAT software and an ASTRID receiver. https://amsat-uk.org/2011/12/11/bbc-micro-and-amsat-uk-software-library/ https://amsat-uk.org/2011/12/11/bbc-micro-and-amsat-uk-softw...
- 83457 6y agoWow. Thanks for this.
- DerDangDerDang 6y agoA teacher I had told a story about using this (or something very similar) with students in the 80s - they were asked (by the U.K. govt he said iirc) to destroy pics they’d got of the Chernobyl area around the time of the disaster.
- driverdan 6y agoThat sounds apocryphal. Why would the UK ask them to destroy images of Chernobyl?
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoWhy would that be? Because of the infrared? What would it have shown? Glowing reactor building?
- api 6y agoI think its just a figure of speech here.
- arcticfox 6y agoWhat is the figure of speech? Maybe I'm missing something, but 'stealing' is completely wrong in every sense of the word here IMO.
- orbital-decay 6y agoStealing hearts is also horribly wrong, from the medical standpoint.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoI think 'stealing' is a sensitive term in IT because of all the propaganda of the copyright cartels, conjuring visions of struggle, imprisonment and financial ruin.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago"stealing hearts" is consistent with proper usage of "stealing". Stealing deprives the original owner, stealing hearts means that the person's "heart" belongs to you, they don't have a choice, they love you too the exclusion of all else. Sure, it's hyperbolic, but the usage is consistent within that context.
- ASalazarMX 6y ago"The Great Imaging Satellite Heist Using SDR!"
- dang 6y agoOk, we've s/Steal/Receiv/'d the title above.