[Cryptography] Fwd: Pearl Harbor and Crypto

[Donald Eastlake]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> According to Bamford's books, the NSA was showing off its
> ability to track OBL using his phone communications to various
> congressmen and press types in an effort to use that to lobby for a
> higher budget, so the source of that leak was the NSA.

Sat phones can typically locate someone within 10km or so, which can
be very useful, but, just from the signal received in orbit, they are
not going to give you an accurate enough location to take someone out
with a missile. However, some are equipped with GPS, you could always
send a drone over looking to locate the sat phone more precisely, or
there might be few places within the area of uncertainty that a person
could be living.

Thanks,
Donald
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