@Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Not sure how accurate but according to one ppl search engine he has a business association to an “Anderson Enterprises” and the only one locally I could find was a one truck, non hazmat, transport outfit in business since 6/2015 in Valley Springs Ca, and another business that makes high dollar “art bags”, ladies bags which hold classic pieces of art electronically on their faces: aslaenvaughn(dot)com is their page

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r oh no....

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Yup. And this association seems at least loosely associated with a massive satellite mapping company called “Spire Global” which brags in its very glossy page that they have one of the largest arrays of active mapping satellites in space, of this type, which apparently do everything from aircraft sat tracking to soil assessments and it’s hopefully not what it *could* be…but this guy fled to the former Soviet Belarus and he’s of Eastern Descent.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I say “at least loosely associated” but at most very, very associated, with spire global, there’s a link on the orbiting Eden webpage to a “mission” that’s took me to the spire global page. The “Ardusat” link

@Usama_Backhair This is the same guy that wore the Ukrainian scarf January 6th and supposedly fought in Ukrainian revolution. I doubt he would flee to Belarus right now if he were REALLY fighting for Ukraine.... Interesti g scarf choice..... @Desmblake @th3j35t3r

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Really dumb? 🤷 working for Putin whole time? Picture is from the sedition hunters info on the birbsite. I think this is him, if he were arrested was he out on bail and ran?

@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.

@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
*maybe* he’s afraid of convictions causing a problem in his professional life but if they’re misdemeanors and not violent (IF) he could get by with a slap on the wrist and still have a career, it just doesn’t seem he’d abandon an entire successful life over possible minor convictions, but I could be wrong 🤷‍♂️

@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Correction after watching the video of what he actually did on camera: ummm, he was filmed doin some serious sht that’ll play well in front of a jury, and the idea that he was able to flee at all after what he did is a terrible testament of slow or incompetent law enforcement. Unless he left before he sold his house, he should’ve been arrested and held w/o bond til arraignment. But he’s hiding something else too, IMO.

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r

I've honestly got no real idea what you're attempting to convince me of here.

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r

So, he goes to BELARUS!?

@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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

@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

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.

@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".

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iridium-satellite-network-will-make-it-impossible-for-an-airplane-to-go-missing/

@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

Set-top boxes are NOT in orbit, they ARE connected to the Internet, and you don't need to make a request to NASA to have them change your channel for you.

Honestly, there's a lot more worrying than actual sense going on here.

Here's my story: a clever idiot got too clever for his own good, managed to get out of the country just ahead of the FBI, and went to the STUPIDEST PLACE IMAGINABLE.

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r

Here are the CubeSat technical specs. I don't believe what you're worrying about is possible.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5418c831e4b0fa4ecac1bacd/t/56e9b62337013b6c063a655a/1458157095454/cds_rev13_final2.pdf

@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
I hope you’re right

@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
Well I’m not talking about sneaking a bucket of leaflets, I’m talking malware or a back door to “borrow” it’s usefulness, it’s not something that’s investigated for the most part, if you build satellites who is checking every private contractor’s work, the same folks who missed the surveillance chip installed in literally millions of laptops, computers and servers in every system America used from nuke subs to almost everything? I’m saying possibility.

@Usama_Backhair @Desmblake @th3j35t3r

What on earth is malware in a STANDALONE SATELLITE good for? It's not on the Internet. It doesn't host a web site.

I'm sorry, this isn't possibility. This is more like "THEY PAINTED RED CROSSES ON PLAGUE VICTIMS DOORS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND HE BOUGHT SOME RED PAINT!!!"

@mcfate @Desmblake @th3j35t3r
From what I understand, according to “Spire Global”’s website, there’s a system of dozens of these satellites which work together for specific purposes, it’s not just one satellite…have you visited the site? Spire has a web of 140 or more nanosats which work in concert…there’s a lot of moving parts therefore a lot of possibilities for failure…meaning, ways to hack it. I hope I’m wrong to worry