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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 we say are "just taking pictures"? Yeah, they're listening too.
I think any country that broadcasts signals 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
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.
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.