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(回答先: 米軍のスパイ機映像、欧州ではだれでも「受信可能」 投稿者 cnn.co.jp 日時 2002 年 6 月 14 日 09:08:48)
Hacker watches Nato spy pictures
By Mark Urban
Newsnight's Diplomatic Editor
Nato surveillance flights in the Balkans are beaming
their pictures over an insecure satellite link - and
anyone can tune in and watch their operations live.
The discovery was made last November by John Locker,
a satellite enthusiast in north west England.
He told Newsnight that he
spent months e-mailing
and faxing US and other
Allied military officers to
warn them of the dangers
before finally deciding to
go public.
Our investigation produced
responses from Nato and
American spokesmen that
the pictures were
unclassified. They said
they would reveal nothing
of value to a potential
enemy.
One officer even told me
that the broadcasts
contained no information about the position or types of
aircraft conducting the surveillance missions.
Watch and learn
Having reviewed many hours of pictures from recent
operations, I can say this is quite wrong.
The symbols around the
edge of the pictures show
the aircrafts' position,
altitude and heading.
Omitting this information
would make the broadcasts
useless to Nato intelligence
analysts.
What's more, regular
watching of the satellite
channels allows you to
learn much about the
technical capabilities of
sophisticated spy planes
like the P-3 Orion and
unmanned drones such as
the Hunter.
During broadcasts by these aircraft, the letters 'P-3' or
'Hunt' are helpfully included on the bottom of the
picture.
I have seen some of these aircraft operating during my
reporting from Balkan trouble spots, and would have
assumed that the presence of aerial surveillance was
usually revealed by the sound of an aircraft or drone
overhead.
Reviewing the Nato footage, it is apparent though that
planes like the P-3 can track a target from up to 20
miles away, through cloud, at night.
Why is this secret trap door open ? Since official
spokesmen will not even concede there is a problem, it
is hard to get them to discuss how it might have
occurred.
New priority
Instead contacts suggest that the timing of the
unencrypted pictures' first appearance, 11 November
2001 is significant.
America's response to the 11th September terrorist
attacks was gearing up, and surveillance of Afghanistan
began soaking up all the available military secure
satellite channels.
Shunting the Balkan
operations onto an insecure
transmission was a matter of
priorities, say analysts. The
problem is, that doing so
endangers a whole host of
Nato operations ranging from
hunting for Radovan Karadzic
to stopping Albanian
guerrillas infiltrating into
Macedonia.
It is surprising though that in
all the months since John Locker started warning people
that the signals could be pulled down by anyone using
amateur equipment, the US military have not
introduced encoding even of the type used by
commercial broadcasters.
The military procurement bureaucracy apparently cannot
come up with a set top decoding box quickly enough.
Who might be watching these transmissions, apart from
retirees like Mr Locker ? Last month Nato raided two
Bosnian Serb military installations, saying they were
eavesdropping of the alliance's signals.
Those able to monitor the transmissions around the
clock - like a military intelligence department or
guerrilla group - will learn much from them.
At the very least the broadcasts allow a Karadzic or a
smuggler to check before they step outside their front
door whether any Nato surveillance aircraft are in the
sky and what they are doing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/newsnight/newsid_2041000/2041754.stm
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