What Satellites Can See From Space Is Troubling

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[jvera]

People be scared of satellite cameras recording them from thousands of km and forget that they have a camera constantly pointing at them and a microphone in their phone

[Dakiraun]

My concern (speaking as a Network engineer and security admin) is that there is already a profound amount of apathy towards personal privacy. People take very little, if any, precautions to protect their privacy as it is, so unfortunately I can see most people also not caring about the ever-increasing resolution of satellite photography.

[geneadaway]

“For our security” gets bandied about a lot, yet we still can’t catch criminals robbing the local Dollar Store.

[Notapizzathief]

Anyone who says "I've done nothing wrong so I have nothing to hide" with regards to privacy should try pooping with the door open at a public bathroom.

[louisesumrell]

As a US Navy veteran, I can almost guarantee that if they say "one meter", the Military has gotten it down to one millimeter.
I was on the USS Ranger, CV61, for it's last cruise, 1993. They did a speed trial. A blade on the port, outboard propeller was bent, so at top speed the whole 1, 000 ft long ship shook like it was about to come apart.
They advertised that top speed was around 35 knots. It went 51 knots with the bent blade. "Hotel 61" was the last oil-fired carrier in the US fleet.
It's anchored in the ship boneyard off Washington state, unless it's already been turned into razor blades 🤣

[Knaeben]

If you are watching me with a satellite, you must have an even more boring life than I do.

[Captain.AmericaV]

They can target with perfect accuracy anyone on earth, but whenever there's alleged alien sightings, from the same or similar distance its so bad its like that the image was taken by a potato!!

[mdhasiburrahman]

It is not about privacy it is about controll, what is even more terrifying

[Nphen]

Perhaps one of the greatest lines I've ever heard in a YT video: "There are potentially 11 different Hubbles out there. Imagine how much further we would be if they were used for science, not spying."

[ericthiel]

People constantly bring up the CIA, and NSA when it comes to the privacy discussion but no one ever mentions the NRO. The stuff those guys can see and listen to is absolutely mindblowing....cutting edge to the point of being spooky.

[El_Couch_Potato]

Joke's on them, I never leave my parents basement.

[WolvenDogma]

As someone who is in their senior year of an Emergency Management and Homeland Security major, yeah this stuff is scary as hell and the government and corporations are watching / listening to you aggregating your data all day every day

[NP-sdmd]

I don’t see satellites as a privacy issue as much as i do cameras and microphones. That the gov doesn’t sue meta into non existence over their use of microphones to listen to conversations is nuts to me. That posting random people online or subsequentely doxing them is not a criminal offense with extreme sentencing is nuts to me.

[stickyfox]

What our leaders and billionaires are doing in broad daylight for everyone to see should be far more troubling than what can be seen from space by anyone in particular.

[wendys]

I appreciate this video, because now I plan to occasionally pause in the middle of my day, glance upwards, and raise the appropriate finger to the sky with a big smile. Whether anyone actually catches that is irrelevant. The point is that they MIGHT.

[DrShout]

I can remember in the 90’s of the military having a camera so sharp that you can tell the brand of a cigarettes box siting on a picnic table. Anything the government can do is told to the public 20+ years later.

[nicolau]

What worries me is not necessarily privacy in this case, but the amount of wasted resources on silly wars and unfriendliness between countries.

It was super difficult to send 1 Hubble up there, and to think that there are 11 other "Hubbles" just for spying is infuriating and depressing.

[j.b.]

Most nights, I go outside to spot satellites. It’s a great sport. Last night I saw eight. Most were Starlink, and one was Cosmos.

[Ekam-Sat]

I am happy to have grown up in an age where I could look up and see only stars. I feel terrible for our children. We are taking the wonder out of the world.

[vtommy]

My dad used to build spy satellites. I'm not sure which series, though. It was classified at the time, but once it was declassified, they had a lady come talk to them and provide more details about what it was they were working on. One of his coworkers asked if they could tell if a guy was on his deck reading a newspaper. See replied, "We could tell you what newspaper they're reading." I've always assumed, based on atmospheric distortion, that she didn't mean they could read the text, but could compare the formatting against known copies of that day's paper from various sources, but still quite impressive. And that was 20+ years ago. Of course, these days I'd be much more afraid of a rogue Webcam or microphone, than I would of a satellite. Everyone who installed the TikTok app, basically gave the Chinese Communist Party full access to turn on their camera and microphone remotely, anytime they want.