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ForHackernews • yesterday at 9:02 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

What? No, exactly the opposite. It's very easy to jam radio signals and much harder to cut wires. There's a reason the drones on the front lines in Ukraine are dragging fibre optic lines these days.


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asdff • yesterday at 9:36 PM

There's probably so many ways to get around that with space based technology. I can quickly imagine several methods. It depends on what the system is for which might be a good method to use.

Method 1: same as how u2 planes dumped their data: air drop physical media containing data and catch it in the air.

Method 2: laser based emission to specific detectors.

Method 3: baseball style communication: station is under observation and manipulates in some way to serve as a signalling language.

Method 4: numbers station

Method 5: bill yourself as an isp and have some coded syntax that can be supplied in plain sight with the rest of isp traffic.

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alexnewman • yesterday at 9:17 PM

But more and more Ukraine is using long range drones guided by SpaceX