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The NRO is very spooky. Word on the street is that their tech is decades ahead of what is publicly available. I personally wonder what kind of crazy capabilitie
by uejfiweun 5y ago
The NRO is very spooky. Word on the street is that their tech is decades ahead of what is publicly available. I personally wonder what kind of crazy capabilities they have all the time.
This is going to sound stupid, but I think the NRO may have photonic supercomputers that are being used in combination with satellites to scrape the activity of every computer on the planet. They have had programs such as TEMPEST for years which aim to understand what a computer is doing through analysis of it's EM emissions. Imagine a satellite network tuned to these frequencies, pointed at the ground at all times, collecting and analyzing what all computers are doing all the time using unfathomable processing power - I think such a thing may be feasible.
Another cool spook program is SENTIENT which is also under the NRO. It is an automated intelligence analysis system which monitors the globe autonomously. Check out the movie "Eagle Eye" for IMO a pretty accurate depiction of what this system may look like in practice.
- dylan604 5y agoWasn't Eagle Eye based on ECHELON?
- woodruffw 5y agoThe NRO struggles to put normal reconnaissance satellites in the sky[1]. Special satellites with enough juice to Van Eck your screen from LEO (or HEO) feels like a stretch. All things being equal, it's probably easier for the USG (or any government) to just MITM you or exploit the crappy router in your closet. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Imagery_Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Imagery_Architecture
- uejfiweun 5y agoI personally am always skeptical whenever I see a "cancelled" program like this. It is a near certainty that some officially cancelled programs continued development in the classified world, such as the SR-72 or the UCAV. Admittedly I know nothing, and it's probable that I'm just blowing air out my ass. But I would LOVE to believe that the USG has got some crazy tech up their sleeve. Because hopefully one day they will declassify it and allow for commercial development, just like they did with computers and the internet.
- sumedh 5y ago> I think the NRO may have photonic supercomputers that are being used in combination with satellites to scrape the activity of every computer on the planet. All this Tech and yet people in Russia are able to influence the US elections. I just find that very amusing.