Re:Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from s...
by account17 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:03PM
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FWIW you almost certainly can at minimum generalize the location of a phone if you know roughly where to look via beamforming [0]
Massive antenna arrays and SIGINT satellites have massive funding and decades of history, and they've already shown interest in tracking literally everything else [1]
This isn't some star trek type of thing, this is a "would the USG dump enough money into SIGINT to implement it?"
I'm very confident the technology exists to roughly track specific locations of interest for specific devices if not more.
I understand people may disagree but it would be foolish to assume it's beyond the realm of possiblity.
Massive antenna arrays and SIGINT satellites have massive funding and decades of history, and they've already shown interest in tracking literally everything else [1]
This isn't some star trek type of thing, this is a "would the USG dump enough money into SIGINT to implement it?"
I'm very confident the technology exists to roughly track specific locations of interest for specific devices if not more.
I understand people may disagree but it would be foolish to assume it's beyond the realm of possiblity.
[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/55143/is-it-possib...
[1] https://www.aerosociety.com/news/eavesdropping-from-space/