Filed under 'S' for 'Scary Stuff!' - Raytheon's new radar system is so powerful that it will allow your not-so-average Arleigh Burke classs of destroyer to track pretty much anything...including satellites! Cnet has thrown up some concept photos from the company formally known as 'Hughes' (a.k.a Howard Hughes) about what it will look like and more importantly: what it will track.
In a connected (I think) topic, I overheard an interesting segment on BBC Radio 4 this morning regarding a new book entitled 'DarkMarket: Cyberthieves,' based on the infamous forum site of the same name (since shut down). The author, Bodley Head, put in a unique effort by contacting various hackers around the world to get the story from 'behind the keyboard' and what he discovered was shocking. Every month, vicious and successful hacking attacks against major organisations suchs as banks, defence agencies and government offices are occurring without report. Much of these attacks are state-sponsered and I suspect that the U.S. is now counting mobile 'Satellite Killing' amongst its 'must have' arsenal of weapons.
If the war on Cyber crime has a physical form, this is undoubtedly it...for all the good it could possibly do.
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