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Originally Posted by Hugh
So somebody created a system to fool the Inmarsat ping tracking, which hadn't been used in that way before? (they had to write new software to get the tracks and direction they did).
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I just gave a random idea to give an example. Someone has to be the first to do something, if it hasn't already been done before. I can't see anywhere if the handshake is encrypted but if not, it would be trivial to create it from another source. Probably just as trivial to replay a recorded previous handshake. Some computer attacks allow logins without knowing the password, simply by sending a previously sent
hashed version again that was previously sniffed. Remember the actual pings or handshakes contained no location data themselves but these pings and the change in frequency due to distance from origin to the satellite were used to calculate a position later.
There is no doubt that military and other agencies fake transmitted data from planes when they need to, to hide what they are doing or to be more discreet. It's simple to change the call sign of a plane/jumbojet that even a pilot can do it apparently. When it comes to military they are going to go much more in depth to complete an illusion they want to convey.
Until the last few years we wasn't aware there were listening bugs which couldn't be found due to not giving off any signals or power, beyond ones that only switched on from time to time with a timer. Now we are aware of intelligence agencies using a type of wave to remotely activate and read their bugs. When people were saying a UFO spotted couldn't be a plane as it was flying too high, 10 or 20 years later they find out it was a secret military plane. I expect a few more will be disappointed when they learn in the future that the strange non-earth plane like manoeuvres reported in UFO sightings turns out to be military TR3-B's that can actually move like that. The point being, just because we don't think we have a capability, doesn't mean we don't and also doesn't mean it's not likely.