Close encounters of the classified kind

Re:Close encounters of the classified kind by lallysingh on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:24PM (#14780021)

Passive sigint doesn't care about latency. Any sigint capabilities here involve man in the middle.

Edit: unless you're doing sigint in something very fast, like a missile launch.

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Re:Close encounters of the classified kind by AndrewKemendo on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:09PM (#14782568)

Passive sigint doesn't care about latency

"Active SIGINT" really only applies to CNE and not the traditional COMINT where MITM is used for translation and interpretation. In which case latency does matter, but not on the order of ms.

unless you're doing sigint in something very fast, like a missile launch.

That's FISINT/ELINT/MASINT though and has a completely different PED chain. Almost 100% automated.

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Re:Close encounters of the classified kind by dkersten on Sunday July 16, 2017 @09:52AM (#14781957)

I was thinking for something like real-time UAV control, but yeah I guess you’re right that for most use cases latency may not be important.

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