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Great write up about a somber topic. Does anyone understand the security concerns here? The satellites can still be tracked and intercepted even with the feed
by bix6 1y ago
Great write up about a somber topic.
Does anyone understand the security concerns here? The satellites can still be tracked and intercepted even with the feed unplugged so what does this really accomplish?
- bigfatkitten 1y agoI think the problem is on the dissemination side. Navy receives data from the spacecraft, pushes that up into their probably-classified HPC environment, processes it there and then gets the output back into the unclassified world via a cross domain solution[1] of some sort. High-to-low CDSes in particular are very expensive and complex to deploy and obtain approval to operate, so it makes sense that they’re reluctant to spend a ton of money and resources doing that as part of their modernisation work to support a spacecraft that they plan to decommission anyway. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain_solution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain_solution