Just another placed propaganda piece in a campaign that have run over 20 years (if ever paused). I can’t think of ANY Western claim against ANY ‘enemy’, that have any proof, or that they are not doing en-masse them selves. It’s a standard propaganda technique to blame the opponent for what they are doing them selves.
Right now the Western plutocracy are tightening their control over their own population, and they need to show how the ‘enemies’ are spying on us, and to cover up their own control moves. Just look at all the idiotic Iran/Russia/China/<insert fave ‘enemy’> SPIES are all over ! WE MUST ATTACK ! It’s cringe at best…
As if the rest of the world have forgotten NSA and other US control agencies work… The West have, because our tech psychopath oligarchs controls leading for-profit media outlets, and can make whole topics ‘disappear’ from the Western information landscape.
Pretty embarrassing that we still accept this primitive war-mongering propaganda narrative as Gospel. It’s a paid organized ‘lynch-mob’ of primitive regurgitators - the technique even have a well-known name “Manufacturing Consent”…
dhork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I find it interesting how the article is just casually dismissing the fact that countries can now fly around and take pictures of other countries’ geosynchronous satellites. It says “Yeah, pics are OK, but Russia might be listening, too, and that’s bad.” Whicn is bullshit. I don’t think anyone is going through the trouble of sending up a remotely piloted space drone but saying “Let’s not listen to the data it is sending, that would be unsportsmanlike!” So all those craft they say are “just taking pictures”? Yeah, they’re listening too.
I think any country that broadcasts sig also into the air like that will have some really good encryption going on though, so listening to the signals is about as useful as listening to static
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Yeah, this article forgot about encryption.
And I doubt a military satellite would be launched without some very strong encryption from the get go.
Now if the enemy satellite docks or send any projectile to our own… Now that’s an issue.
dhork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wonder if the real point of the article is not that the Russians are doing this, but that everyone else is saying “Hey, we know what you’re up to”. To give them second thoughts about escalating.