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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 62 points 4 days 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 60 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

Is this what winning feels like?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 days ago

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

none of the mainstream media would report on that anyway, so it's still pretty pointless. western media has shown that it's pretty invested in not covering things that make western nations look bad.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Any of our news orgs simply won't publish them.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago

China can easily use this situation to become the new beacon of freedom.

Not saying that’s what they are, but with usa destroying soft power there is an opportunity here for other countries.

The western nations will go along with it. Don’t trust Europe, but the east? I half expect them to come in and shove the dagger in.

Hope it was worth it for… that shitty country i won’t name any longer? Fucking joke.