I'm sure SAIC/Northrup/whoever gets the contract to 'fix this hole' is going to be enjoying the 800 million they secure from the Pentagon to basically modify transmissions/upgrade the firmware of the phones to use Diffie-Hellman handshakes and AES haha. ROI at must be absolute - 64 billion dollars in grey-money was allocated for "Overseas Contingency Operations" by the Omnibus bill last December. He's going to have the pleasure of having SSSS scribbled onto every airline ticket he purchases from now on, I'd wager. Which I'm sure they're selling at absurd prices thanks to Sept 11.Įditorial retraction, mea culpa, #2 C-37 is USAF aircraft - this dude seriously compromised his personal security by making this talk public. They got it for the price of the _single launch_ (i.e., not including materials, R&D, labor, etc) of their multitude (60ish) of sub-orbitals.). Post chapter-11 (2000), investors got the whole Iridium infrastructure at sub-pennies on the dollar. Editorial retraction, mea culpa: Wrong about the TACSAT statement here. Iridium is basically only still in business because of US armed forces (and maybe diplomatic services? though not sure how much field work they do.) operational dependencies.
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