…the recovered data included user SMS and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols… the team was able to collect unencrypted satellite data “from sea vessels owned by the US military,” along with traffic from multiple organizations within the Mexican government and military, including personnel records, narcotics activity, and military asset tracking…
So I could potentially be interested in some satellites that have capabilities that are not defined, and one of these things can read the coms?
Seems like a problem
Yes and no.
For communications sure. For general entertainment or old GOES satelite data, its fun and educational. I got a really good picture of one of the NOAA sats when the California wildfires were picking up and you could see the smoke stretch all the way to canada.
There’s a guy on YouTube that regularly shows what n orth k orea is watching on their TV channels. Its fascinating.
Does DPRK really have a TV satellite or is that guy just capturing analog (yes, analog) PAL or DVB-T2 terrestrial signals that make it to South Korea?
The primary channel KCTV has a satellite transmission, the few smaller channels are just terrestrial.
https://youtu.be/BTP_sQySr5M
Does nk actually have a satellite? Or is this some old Chinese shit the Chinese let them use?
I’m not sure its been many years since I’ve looked.
Wikipedia only mentions analog/digital terrestrial, IPTV and cable as of 2020. They cite a 2013 article with this info: “Imported TV sets that are able to operate on both PAL and NTSC, such as those from Japan, have their NTSC abilities disabled by the government on import.” I can’t imagine how they do it on flat screens (it was not really feasible to import a new CRT in 2013+) because LCDs/OLEDs do all scaling in a single chip. Presumably, they could shut down the system if they detect 59.94 Hz with an added circuit but that’s easy to find and remove.