Re:SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble
by cfraenkel on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:34PM
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False, though common, misunderstanding of responsibilities. The NRO is the operator/owner of the space asset. The NSA is (one of) the customer getting data from the NRO space asset. (along with many other sources)
Re:SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble
by walrus01 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:45PM
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Though I would bet good money that a vastly greater percentage of what the NSA does for traffic interception, storage and analysis is related to terrestrial based networks (or terrestrial-to-local wireless like LTE) rather than space based, these days.
Snowden showed they desperately need some light to shine on them once in a while.
Otherwise intelligence agencies have a historically consistent tendency to get a little too laissez faire with people's right.
NRO is probably the most secretive of all of them, but I'm assuming looking at pictures of Russian tanks and Chinese missile silos all day isn't the most civil-rights threatening thing vs storing billions of peoples emails, text messages, and phone calls like the NSA.