So @th3j35t3r …this Evan Neumann guy…
Here’s background…more to come

@Desmblake @th3j35t3r

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.

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.