Sunday, April 30, 2017

This Mobile Phone App Can Track Spy Planes

Open Secret: The £650 million aircraft was tracked near a naval air base

Daily Mail: Plane spotters with £2.99 app expose top secret UK spy plane off Russia: Highly-classified mission involving £650m aircraft is watched by thousands online

* A top-secret British spy plane was tracked using a £2.99 mobile phone app
* The £650 million RAF aircraft, called Rivet Joint, could be seen at 27,000ft
* Monitered as it tried to gather intelligence about a Russian base on the Baltic Sea

A top-secret British spy plane was tracked using a £2.99 mobile phone app as it flew on a daring mission to eavesdrop on Vladimir Putin’s air defences.

The £650 million RAF aircraft, called Rivet Joint, could be seen at 27,000ft as it tried to gather intelligence about a heavily defended Russian base on the Baltic Sea.

A minute-by-minute record of the highly classified mission to study the Kaliningrad naval air base was watched by hundreds of thousands of people on the internet, and details were shared on Twitter.

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WNU Editor: So much for secrecy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hmyeah just another method of distribution... we had distribution of whistle blowing, reporting, DDoS,..etc.. I think there needs to be more research in combating distributed soft systems and methods (as opposed to hard systems, which we can do more readily)