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Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases (arstechnica.com)
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Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

A rather pointless move, since Russia is providing Iran with satellite intelligence. Not to mention, I highly doubt the feeds are encrypted, and if not than anyone with the will to download them and a couple hundred dollars could build a receiver. There's tutorials on how to do so on YouTube.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Not completely pointless until Russia starts providing the intel to news organizations.

This isn't about keeping Iran from seeing the damage, it's to keep the public from seeing it.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Honey pots. Highly monitored.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 hours ago

what are you implying? the youtube videos are honeypots? do you think Iran cares about that? I really don't think Iran cares about that.