http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-31/how-isis-broadcasts-its-message-world-satellite-dishes-bought-turkey
EU sat companies provide ISIS with internet uplink ability, so that hate and violence can be spread across the globe. And these companies don't have the technical means to stop this? Really?
I guess its just another one of those 'conspiracy theories'......
Quote from: Eighthman on January 01, 2016, 04:08:07 PM
EU sat companies provide ISIS with internet uplink ability, so that hate and violence can be spread across the globe. And these companies don't have the technical means to stop this? Really?
I don't know if they really have the means of knowing where the satellite antenna is. The article says that when configuring the service people must supply GPS coordinates, but they don't say if those coordinates must be correct or not.
Are these services provided free of charge by EU companies? Do they require an account and bills to be paid by the customer?
I'm not buying into these excuses.
You can have a billing address in a different place, what prevents people from taking a satellite antenna and moving it to another place? Unless the antenna has its own GPS that cannot be turned off, how can they know where the antenna is?
Salaam Aleikam,
We have observed that your Service Account #666 has been used to uplink videos not permitted under your service contract, so we have terminated your account effective immediately.
Allahu Akbar,
EUSAT
and you think this is difficult to do?
It's not the same thing.
The service provider has access to the data packets sent and received by any user, so they can know what people use the connection for, but as we are talking about a radio service, how can they know where the antenna is?
I was talking about the place where the antenna is used because of what the article says, that people buy the antennas in Turkey and may install them in the areas occupied by ISIS.
Also, although the service provider can see the data packets, I don't know if the satellite operators can see what data the channels they lease or sell to other companies carry, as that could be seen as a security problem for the companies wanting to use the satellite for their communications.
I am sure that a certain intelligence service would rather the link was kept open to assist in the gathering of information
and also so that the horror videos etc will gradually upset more and more people worldwide.
I am also sure that the link could be shut down in an instant when it is thought to be of no further use to that intelligence
service.
What is to stop someone having a local account then forwarding that info? Someone could have a valid account anywhere in the world then relay the feed via other signals.
Just like NASA transmissions were intercepted and recored by Martyn Stubbs that gave us all those NASA ufo videos... anyone can intercept signals from satellites and decode them if needed
I has satellite TV for a while There was no GPS device on the antenna... you merely needed to point the antenna at the satellite
There's plenty of direct satellite internet in the Middle East advertised. That makes sense given the sparse terrain rather than WiMAX or some local service. So, you're going to need an authorized box and account and pay your bills.
Beyond that, I would find the notion of ISIS 'booking sat time' to be non-credible......although the whole relationship of the US and ISIS involves much that defies explanation, as with hundreds of oil tankers rolling thru the desert continually, free from being bombed until Russia made it an issue.
The US hasn't destroyed media centers used by ISIS, either - a big contrast with the deadly way they treated Al Jazeera folks in Iraq.