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Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by justsomehnguy »

krige wrote: post #4
lovegrenoble wrote: post #3

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Extremely easy to convince population that state X is an evil, looming threat if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end. Russia could have stopped at any moment. Can still stop at any moment. They could have single-handedly undermined Europe's trust in the States, years before the orange-in-charge did, merely by not starting an invasion. Their choice. Their FA, now they…

Everyone knows they are evil. Not that many states out there fly to other side of the planet to bomb someone irrelevant or outright kidnap president of the country they are not even have a boarder with.

Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by cc81 »

citrin_ru wrote: post #20
toss1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TBF, Russia does have something more. It is a terrorist state with a gas station

Venezuela has more oil than Russia and yet it's irrelevant because the US actually enforces sanctions against Venezuela.

Venezuela does not have the capacity to extract that much oil and it is also quite expensive.

Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by mrguyorama »

arethuza wrote: post #17
lxgr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is pretty standard, even in military contexts. For example, military aircraft ACARS communications are often entirely in plaintext, and don't forget the famous "Predator drone video feed intercepted via $26 software" incident: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126102247889095011 However, that's only the data they forward, and this can be more or less trivially fixed at several layers, since many of these commu…

During the Falklands War some of the UK's European allies intercepted transmissions from Soviet spy satellites that allowed the location of the Argentinian fleet to be identified - this information was passed to the UK.

Is this true or is this the way the US passed intel to the UK against their nominal ally?

Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by mrguyorama »

lovegrenoble wrote: post #9
krige wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extremely easy to convince population that state X is an evil, looming threat if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end. Russia could have stopped at any moment. Can still stop at any moment. They could have single-handedly undermined Europe's trust in the States, years before the orange-in-charge did, merely by not starting an invasion. Their choice. Their FA, now they…

>> if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end. This sounds like a description of the United States to me...

How does the US being shitty justify a Russian invasion of their sovereign neighbor?

Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by fmlpp »

citrin_ru wrote: post #20
toss1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TBF, Russia does have something more. It is a terrorist state with a gas station

Venezuela has more oil than Russia and yet it's irrelevant because the US actually enforces sanctions against Venezuela.

USA violated Venezuelan sovereignty. USA is a terrorist state.

Re: Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

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Post by 4d4m »

direwolf20 wrote: post #7
grantwest wrote: post #2

The real headline here is “Anyone can control Europe’s key satellites because they didn’t bother to put encryption on billions of dollars worth of critical infrastructure”

US satellites are the same

phones and their baseband radios too :)
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