I have direct experience being tracked by this technology. With photo evidence of a utility he360 truck in the field after several loop backs on the road. The technology can be used to swarm a target of interest. It is my opinion from experience all skilled ethical hackers and non ethical hackers are tracked. I say this knowing my surveillance is about to be doubled down now. Yay.
Edit: to their defense… my laptop was compromised at the time due to a Realtek chip supply chain hack that was persistent. The exploit was associated with “redgobot”.
Frequencies are combined to create unique footprints of any given target… ie car satellite or mobile connections, radio stations, devices, chips in head… you know the usual.
I do not identify as a TI btw. I identify as the average Joe American citizen that may or may not be aware of the undercurrent that defines their existence.
Because who is looking in the middle of the Indian Ocean at commercial airliners. There’s far more important targets and areas for these systems to focus on
Any serious military is tracking all known imaging/SAR satellites and uses their fly-by times (which are entirely predictable) for moving stuff covertly. I.e. you want to be out in the open in Area 51 testing a new RQ-180 derivative only when no one can be looking at you right now.
Also, there are global ADS-B satellite relays, and frankly I don't know why this data wasn't logged for MH370 - it must be explained somewhere. There's a guy on Twitter who captures those on a custom antenna + BladeRF setups (this data is plugged into adsbexchange for oceanic routes coverage). AIS relies even more on satellite relays, as the curvature of the planet limits signal propagation much more than for airplanes. What you see on any AIS website is mostly from a satellite.
Interestingly there are 7 hours of logged Inmarsat Classic Aero mobile handshake data from (IIRC) the "smart engine" telemetry.
The logged transmission round trip GroundStation -> Sat -> Aircraft -> Sat -> GroundStation provided an non unique "arc of travel" across the globe that was used by Australia to narrow the search area to a truckload of ocean floor that was substantially smaller than the entire planet.
The archived versions of the logs saved by the Malaysian gov are:
Your source conveniently omits weird data in the logs that start at 18:39:55UTC (a bunch of zeros, like something errored out).
Satellite pings switch to IOR at 15:59UTC and never change back to POR despite the plane flying east towards it. Going east until 17:21 UTC the plane should have pinged POR but doesn't
That's the archive.org mirror of the openly declared edited from raw logs version released by Malaysia .. so not "my source" which, back in the day, were the raw logs from ground stations.
The specific issue I have with hyper focused attention on these specific logs and hoorah about "weird data" is that I haven't seen much in the way of properly comparative analysis of a super set of broad fleet Inmarsat logs ... these in general are the trailing edge of quality data, riddled with nuls, semi handshakes, line noise, etc.
Transponders are for positioning, black boxes for logging important flight data, diagnostic interfaces for mechanics in hangers ... and component level Inmarsat .. pretty much not more than a curiousity of "because we can" that's occasionally useful when a properly formed messages truly indicates an inflight issue.
Ping routing and ping times were never meant to be consistent nor used for gross "half-LORAN" positioning .. this is all happenstance after event signal engineering hack work.
Assuming it was monitored by a classified system, would they release the information? Recall rumored IUSS role during the Titan implosion situation and consider Malaysia's position, geographically and geopolitically, between the US and China in the context of sharing monitoring capabilities. If those capabilities even exist.
bingo. it either landed somewhere secretly or crashed. In both situation there was nothing aboard, secret cargo or important politicians, that would justify unveiling of their capabilities to track everything everywhere at all times.
So it isn't actually true that it is "constantly scanning every inch of the entire globe with IR cameras with missile/plane/boat/person(?) level resolution" then, or it is true and they know exactly where the plane went down they just don't tell anyone about it for some reason. Its either or.
Every inch of the globe is imaged every N hours, by satellites making continuous observations. Most of the earth is not under sensor coverage at any particular instant. Both are true.
It’s possible that NRO has a later observation of MH370 than any that have been publicly disclosed, but it would be sheer luck to have, like, video of the disappearance.
