This is what you get for not castrating them 25 years ago.
Make internet a utility already, fuck.
I really thought you were going somewhere else before I got to the second sentence.
Yeah that was a short but wild ride lol
Who? The intelligence people, the Chinese spies or the internet people?
Castrations for everybody! You get a castration and you get a castration!
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All 3
I was having a hard time imagining which company this could be. Not that I’m a fan of Verizon or Comcast, but I think they know what side their bread is buttered on. Which one wouldn’t?
Then I remembered Starlink exists.
Don’t think they were colluding with the provider. They probably just put a burner sim card into a 4g module and sent data over a VPN to China whenever it had signal.
It could have even been one of those multi SIM router things that has network redundancy.
It’s a satellite provider. Cell networks don’t work at that altitude. Starlink was my first guess too but, after some more thought, it could be Hughesnet. They probably have wider coverage.
Yeah, their coverage is hughe
Hugh Mungous
I thought the official announcement from the pentagon was it never sent any data?
You’re correct, it didn’t send any data, it sent data.
Ah yes of course, my apologies for the misunderstanding. I hate when a butt plug is the voice of reason, thank you for your service though.
Right, because they figured out which provider was using and had them cut it off…
That just sounds like efficient design if you ask me.
But the free market will regulate. /s
I’ll have a good laugh if it turns out the baloon was not chinese after all, it has just contained some iot device with previously unknown call home function to collect diagnostic data.
Ok, now tell us what the hell you shot down way up north during that time.
Well…how many nationwide internet suppliers could there be?
Three.
Thanks, deregulation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Officials familiar with assessment said it found that the connection allowed the balloon to send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.
Such a court order would have allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance on the balloon as it flew over the U.S and as it sent and received messages to and from China, the officials said, including communication sent via the American internet service provider.
“As we had made it clear before, the airship, used for meteorological research, unintentionally drifted into U.S. because of the westerlies and its limited self-steering capability,” Liu said in a statement to NBC News.
The previously unreported U.S. effort to monitor the balloon’s communications could be one reason Biden administration officials have insisted that they got more intelligence out of the device than it got as it flew over the U.S.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News this month, VanHerck explained that he worked together with the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees U.S. nuclear weapons, to reduce the release of emergency action messages to ensure the Chinese balloon could not collect them.
“Protecting EAM and nuclear command and control communications is of critical importance to the United States,” a senior defense official told NBC News.
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The PCC must be feeling all smart about their spy balloon design choices. Just wait until they need to talk to Comcast customer support…
We should let them do this provided they only use Comcast and Sprint.
Was Dishy mounted on top?
Wow really they used infustructure in the United States to communicate with something in The United States instead of putting a super expensive and moving satellite dish on the thing???
Can’t wait for the final report in 10 years that confirms it was a weather balloon and some dumbass CO was too excited and wanted to see an AIM-9x get used on a static 10mph moving target.
Pentagon really running out of fun ideas to waste tax dollars.
Could have at least used the 20mm guns included in the F22 instead of $500,000
