[103637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Apr 9 11:32:12 2008
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:23:21 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com>,
"Patrick Giagnocavo"
<patrick@zill.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <2d106eb50804090815n2537c307if5ec7216a9d81838@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600
"Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a number of unique characteristics of ships including
> profile and radar fingerprint. I'd like to see the images from the
> article that was forwarded to the list.
>
There are lots of ways to identify ships. The question is which were
trained on the right area at the right time -- and if the scanning was
done somewhat later, how can you tell which ships had been at that spot
then.
I'm not saying it can't be done; I'm just wondering how.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
