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
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.