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There is tremendous value in knowing the orbits and when they pass over as India demonstrated in 1998 by using awareness of US spy satellite overpasses to keep
by groos 5y ago
There is tremendous value in knowing the orbits and when they pass over as India demonstrated in 1998 by using awareness of US spy satellite overpasses to keep their preparations secret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II
- bob1029 5y agoThis is fascinating. From an original source in that article: > The Regiment 58 Engineers had learned a lot since 1995 about how to avoid detection by U.S. spy satellites. A lot of work was done at night, and heavy equipment was always returned to the same parking spot at dawn so that image analysts would conclude that they had never moved. Piles of sand were shaped to mimic the wind-aligned and shaped dune forms in the area. When cables were laid they were carefully covered and native vegetation replaced to conceal the digging.
- foobarian 5y agoThe movie Body of Lies showed some clever counter-surveillance tricks like in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeciZ5_hFTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeciZ5_hFTY Probably not realistic but thought provoking still.
- XorNot 5y agoThe problem with counter-surveillance is you take a risk doing it. Maybe your technique works, maybe you've got an advantage...but you don't know. And if it doesn't work, a good adversary will also not take immediate action either.