So @th3j35t3r …this Evan Neumann guy…
Here’s background…more to come
Apparently, this person is a pilot (of Maule STOL planes) and did some technical job in Ca, apparently skilled and seems to have worked on some possibly sensitive things, this guy isn’t fleeing petty charges he’s got something he’s afraid will be found out, imo. 🤨🤔
@Desmblake @th3j35t3r
This is also him:
He had or has a house in Mill Valley, and a job nearby, a technical degree, pilot’s license, and apparently his outfit did thermal pressure tests on a crowdfunded nano satellite called “sky cube” in 2011-2012, or claimed so. I think “thermal pressure tests” or such like?
https://abc7news.com/evan-neumann-mill-valley-fbi-most-wanted-list/10882741/
@Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Sorry for repeating myself I’m crossposting to Twit and CoSo, and CoSo offers far more characters than Tw. He did some work on the nano sat before it was launched and subsequently returned to earth. More in a minute…
@Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Aaand more: he’s a hardware and software developer having something to do with cameras which can detect RF and use said signals to infer the environment and things inside it, here’s his bio page on *his* website, and I believe his (or his associates) development(s): called “Orbiting Eden”
Orbiting Eden(dot)com…a webpage that’s apparently not terribly secure according to DuckDuckGo and Safari…
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
He ain't launching any satellites from Belarus.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
What I worry about is that he already put, whatever he may have wanted to put, into satellites that’re already launched and in service. And that he fled because whatever association with the higher justice departments of the United States he’d endure during prosecution for Jan6th offenses might reveal “other things” like technical work on currently active visualization, tracking and mapping satellite networks.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Okey-dokey, that's not how these satellites work. You can't simply "sneak shit" into a CubeSat and expect NASA is going to play along. You'll probably get arrested for trying.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I mean not to mention that working on putting stuff into a CubeSat gives you absolutely no way to communicate with or control the satellite once it's been launched.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Why would that be true tho, is it impossible to simply write code that allows nefarious actors to use the satellite at their will without destroying it? We know that even TV boxes are routinely hijacked into botnets and then after the baddie is done, they release them back to doing what they do with no Ill effect in most cases to the original equipment.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
"Nefarious actors" use a ten-centimeter-cubical satellite that's been vetted to hell and back by NASA, has limited capacity when it comes to power and radio, to do WHAT, exactly?
Spell it out for me, I don't get it. There's got to be something more than "SATELLITES ARE A MENACE" here.
Do you get that just because you put something into a CubeSat and it gets launched, you don't actually possess any ability to directly interact with, or control, it?
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Yeah according to spire global that isn’t true, the communicate back and forth with their network of satellites and I don’t understand what point there would be to put a satellites into orbit for communications or mapping if nobody can interact with it to benefit from the communications or mapping capabilities…why else launch satellites if not for terrestrial benefit?
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I'm still failing to come up with any idea what you imagine he might be able to ACCOMPLISH, even imagining he somehow built himself a ground station.
Let's say you're right. What's his four-inch cube going to do to America?
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
If he can give someone access to any of them, even one, their inter-connectivity theoretically gives them access to the entire network and whatever capabilities the system has including mapping, tracing of aircraft, soil densities which can be used to extrapolate any number of things and whatever things the network is used for which they don’t publicize on the webpage, or to change those readings, enemy nations would love such access.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Other nations’ satellites could easily communicate with it tho, since they already have such satellites in orbit especially ones who like to steal our technology and mess with America in general. Whatever the system can do, if other nations like Russia had access to use it they could do innumerable types of things, presumable whatever the 140 CubeSat network has capability to do.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Okay, and what "does the 140 CubeSat network have capability to do"?
Mostly, they've got the capability to orbit.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Unless you've got something more concrete than "unmoored willies" to offer here, I'm finished with this, it's a complete waste of my time.
You have my blessing to continue living is a state of free-floating anxiety.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Look, I understand where you’re coming from except for the fact that you didn’t visit spire global’s website, otherwise you wouldn’t ask me that question. If you’re not interested in checking that out, I will take that to mean you’re not interested in this conversation and no hard feelings, but I’m not gonna screw around with what seems like ridicule for sport, I’m not about it. Do, or do not, visit a simple website. Do, or don’t have concerns. 🤷♂️
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I think I've said about three times that I'm not really interested in this conversation, I find this concern to be frankly absurd.
Not to mention I haven't seen. you post any actual URL for this "spire global's website", and if I have one rule in these matters, it's that I don't have to do the heavy lifting to "prove" someone else's "point" for them.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Let me attempt to explain: I don't have any "concerns" about things over which I have neither control nor influence. Ever.
Keeps life much simpler.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I agree. Entirely. Why would I be in a state of “constant floating anxiety” over something which I cannot change. Imagine my shock when someone assumes I’m not only foolish enough to do that, but also a liar enough to make up a story about a satellite network and a guy fleeing to the former Soviet Union? I mean, that assumption about me after I’ve given them what any fair person could and should use to verify statements I made about it? I’m gonna go to the store.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I cannot peer into other people's psyches, but you're STILL going on with me about a "concern" I find ludicrous.
That suggests you can't get it out of your mind, and you feel a need to express something about it.
Sounds like anxiety to me.
You could just drop it.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Now, nobody's called you a "liar". I've intimated that I think your concerns are misplaced and I've tried to explain why.
I think you've created a worry for yourself out of literally nothing at all. I don't think hypochondriacs are "liars", either.
@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
If it’s called spire global, if I owned a company and decided to call it “spire global”, I would probably have its web presence at “spire.com” and if I were a person suggested to such a site, that would be the very first site I typed into my browser, that’s if I decided to skip looking it up and finding the link. THAT isn’t rocket science, pardon the pun.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Yo, if you can't even hand me a URL, you can't have spent much time looking at it yourself.
I said I am NOT doing a single shred of heavy lifting in support of YOUR claims, which I happen not to buy into. That hasn't changed. I don't let people dictate how I spend my time and effort.
And I'm STILL convinced this is a silly set of things to be concerned about.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
This seems like a great opportunity to see whether "Mute conversation" is working yet.
Hasta.
@mcfate
And by “concerns” I don’t mean “free floating anxiety”…simply concerns. That’s all. I’m concerned that I need to hit the grocery store for more food for the pup and fresh veg for dinner, but I’m not in a state of anxiety about it.
If this looks fake to you or that they really don’t have what they say they have, that doesn’t mean “I made it up”…it simply means I believed what their website claims they have.
It’s
https://spire<dot>com
If you’re interested.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
What "ENTIRE NETWORK"?
If people want to "trace aircraft", there's a web site for that, and no one's launched or launching a CubeSat to do anything of the sort, for multiple reasons: they can't carry the antenna needed, they don't fly at the height needed, and THEY TRANSMIT THEIR DATA TO NASA, BY DEFAULT.
This is completely fantastical. You're just making this up as you go, I think.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Tracking aircraft takes a satellite "the size of a Mini Cooper".
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Question: NASA and the DoJ are surely aware that this guy was involved in some fashion or other — the precise fashion has never been made clear — with a Cubesat that got launched.
Why wouldn't NASA just shut it down if they were concerned?
You don't think these things have a "kill switch"?
@mcfate
okay, I DON’T make things up, I get nothing from it and the statement is insulting, there’s no need to be a prick. I don’t make things up. Maybe there’s been so much disinformation lately that you’ve been affected and reject the idea of going to a company webpage because you’re tired of things of this nature, but don’t accuse me of lying especially when what I stated is readily confirmed by going to their website, it’s fucking rude.
@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
It's a 1.5W transmitter. NASA can communicate with it. They'll pull data out of your CubeSat for you and send it to you on a CD.
Unless he's going to somehow put together an orientable ground-based antenna with about a 15-meter radius, he's not going to be able to talk to his 10cm satellite.
This is the most incredibly improbably set of concerns I've heard in at least four months.