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Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:39:20 -0600
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600 "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan () gmail com> wrote: > There are a number of unique characteristics of ships including > profile and radar fingerprint. I'd like to see the images from the > article that was forwarded to the list. > There are lots of ways to identify ships. The question is which were trained on the right area at the right time -- and if the scanning was done somewhat later, how can you tell which ships had been at that spot then. I'm not saying it can't be done; I'm just wondering how.
I'm not saying it was done. The image alone is probably out of context. I'd venture to believe that someone was able to provide additional evidence to cause the impound of the ships. As you say, it's "possible" that the satellite snapped them as they were dragging their anchor specifically in the area of the cable, but perhaps they acquired correlating evidence such as a fingerprint from a friendly military in the area? Military platforms record radar fingerprints and compile them in databases after visual identification to use as 'unique identifiers'. My original point was that it's a fairly unimpressive story. I've been using satellite to do terrestrial surveys for networks and it's not incomprehensible that someone could take a longshot and call a company, find out anothers telemetry, call them, and get images covering a specific time period as you mention. With correlating data points, it's a compelling case. -M<
Current thread:
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage, (continued)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Deepak Jain (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Marshall Eubanks (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Jeff Shultz (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Martin Hannigan (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Sean Donelan (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Patrick Giagnocavo (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Joel Jaeggli (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 09)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Martin Hannigan (Apr 09)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 09)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Martin Hannigan (Apr 09)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Deepak Jain (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 10)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Alexander Harrowell (Apr 13)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Martin Hannigan (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Hank Nussbacher (Apr 08)
- Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Joel Jaeggli (Apr 08)
- RE: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage Robert D. Scott (Apr 08)