Re:FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over ...
by cagey_vet on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @07:07PM
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you do understand that flightaware data is crowdsourced, yes? the data format is trivial to fake, and subsequently upload. i am not saying thats the case here, but implicitly trusting user input makes me skeptical about the entire conclusion.
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Re:FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over ...
by jjwiseman on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @08:41PM
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Read my link from the parent comment: https://storify.com/jjwiseman/tracking-fbi-aerial-surveillan...
tldr: I didn't use Flightaware; I observed these aircraft directly using my own receiver, decoding their callsigns and squawk codes, and correlated with FAA records and the company confirmed by the FBI itself to be a front.
But it's true, most of this evidence is still circumstantial. Just because a company with an odd name and no internet presence has the same PO Box as the DOJ doesn't prove it's a front company; but it's pretty suggestive.