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Message no. 1
From: Roger Carbol <rcarbol@*******.ROYALROADS.CA>
Subject: Re: Recon and satellites
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 12:27:20 PDT
You're right, of course, Roberson-san, in that you'd need to know when and
where the satellite is (or if it is at all) passing over your target site.

I'm presuming that space will be privitized, more or less, and that many
corps will have their own private satellites up; the result being that
odds would be better than terrible that SOMEONE is passing over your target.

The trouble with directly hacking a satellite are many:

1) It would probably be encrypted like drek;
2) It probably wouldn't be hooked into the Net;
3) Folks would be likely to notice if their satellite was straying.

But it does have some interesting possibilities, doesn't it.

remix
Message no. 2
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@********.UTCS.TORONTO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Recon and satellites
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 09:49:51 -0400
Why bother hacking? I'd just buy some data. Even today you can buy
some pretty good satallite imaging (especially from ex Eastern Block
countries eager for hard cash, apparently); by 2050, I'd only expect
this to get bigger and bigger.

- cks

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