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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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<
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