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Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Apr 09 11:33:47 2008 
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600
"Martin Hannigan" <[email protected]> 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.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb