Re:Close encounters of the classified kind
by AndrewKemendo on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:09PM
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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.
"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.