SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects. The tool is used to identify targets, such as al-Qaeda couriers, who move between GSM cellular networks. These couriers often swap SIM cards within phones that have the same ESN, MEID or IMEI number.[1] The tool uses classification techniques like random forest analysis. Because the data set includes a very large proportion of true negatives and a small training set, there is a risk of overfitting. Bruce Schneier argues that a false positive rate of 0.008% would be low for commercial applications where "if Google makes a mistake, people see an ad for a car they don't want to buy" but "if the government makes a mistake, they kill innocents."[1]

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Participation and PartnershipsEdit

NSA directorates participating:[2]

Signals Intelligence: S21, S22, SSGResearch: R6Technology: T12, T14

It has partnerships with TMAC/FASTSCOPE, MIT Lincoln labs and Harvard.[3]

ControversyEdit

The SKYNET project was linked with drone systems, thus creating the potential for false-positives to lead to deaths.[1][4]

Al-Jazeera's bureau chief in Islamabad, Ahmad Zaidan, was wrongly identified as the most probable member of al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood on their records.[1][4][5] Despite the fact it is improbable to be a member of both groups, he is also widely and publicly known for traveling to meet with radical groups, but was instead identified due to mobile phone surveillance placing him in rural locations. This has been seen to show the failing of the system, as it has misidentified a journalist conducting legitimate, public business as a potential terrorist, whilst also harming freedom of the press and breaking US law on surveillance of journalists.

Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Astrium Services on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence, which provide strategic communication services to the three branches of the British Armed Forces and to NATO forces engaged on coalition tasks. The satellites were operated by Paradigm Secure Communications until October 2012 when the organisation was rebranded to Astrium Services.[1]

Skynet 1

There were two Skynet 1 satellites (A and B); Skynet 1A was launched on a Delta M on 22 November 1969, but the satellite failed after less than a year of operation. Skynet 1B was launched on a Delta M on 19 August 1970. Skynet 1B was placed in a geostationary transfer orbit and was abandoned in transfer orbit (270 x 36058 km) due to a failure of the Thiokol Star 37D apogee kick motor

Skynet 2Edit

The second and last Skynet II satellite is unpacked at Cape Canaveral for launch processing Oct. 3, 1974. It was successfully launched Nov. 22, 1974. (USAF photo)

Following the operational failure of the Skynet 1A satellite, the timetable for the launch of the Skynet 2 communications satellite was delayed. Skynet 2A was launched on the Delta 2313 by NASA for the United Kingdom on 19 January 1974.[6] A short circuit in an electronics package circuit board (on second stage) left the upper stages and satellite in an unstable low orbit (96 x 3,406 km x 37.6 deg) that rapidly decayed. An investigation revealed that a substandard coating had been used on the circuit board.

Despite being in an unstable orbit, the ground stations successfully located and tracked Skynet 2A and were able to use telemetry readings from the solar panels to determine its alignment. Based on this analysis it was decided to use the alignment thrusters to deorbit the unit, and it was destroyed when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 24 January 1974. [8]

Skynet 2B was successfully launched on the Delta 2313 by NASA for the United Kingdom on 23 November 1974.[9]

A Skynet II satellite is packed for shipment at a contractor’s facility. (USAF photo)

The Skynet 2 satellites were assembled and tested at the Marconi Space and Defence Systems establishment in Portsmouth, England, and were the first non-amateur[10]communication satellites built outside the US and USSR.[11] The Skynet 2 system was very successful for its time, and remained in service for several years beyond the originally planned timeframe.

Skynet 3Edit

Skynet 3 was cut due to budget restrictions, and instead the capability it had offered was delivered using U.S. assets. This dependence on the U.S. assets was identified as a weakness during the Falklands War and was one of the contributing factors for the emergence of the Skynet 4 tranche of space vehicles.[12]

Skynet 4Edit

Skynet 4 satellites have few similarities to the earlier generations. The cylindrical body of Skynet 1 and 2 was replaced by a large square body housing antennas with deployable solar-cell arrays. This marks the technological improvement from spin-stabilisation, used in earlier cylindrical satellites, to three-axis stabilisation using momentum wheels and reaction wheels controlling the satellite gyroscopically.

Skynet 4 were the first purely British built satellites, manufacture of 4A, 4B and 4C being carried out by British Aerospace Dynamics (BAe Dynamics) with Matra Marconi Space providing the Communications Payload. NATO adapted the design for the NATO IVA and IVB communication satellites, also manufactured by BAe Dynamics. The programme timescales were delayed, as initially Skynet 4 was designed to be launched from the Space Shuttle (STS), with chosen RAF officers to be part of each Shuttle Crew. However following the 1986 Challenger disaster (STS 51), the programme slowed and all the Skynet 4s had to be modified to suit the changes needed to go on a disposable launch vehicle. As Skynet 4A's build was advanced it needed significant modification, and its completion was overtaken by 4B which had not progressed as far, and hence more easily converted. Consequently 4B was finished first and launched in 1988, with 4A next in early 1990, and 4C later the same year.[13][14]

The improved Stage 2 satellites (4D, 4E and 4F) were built by Matra Marconi Space and Astrium to replace the earlier versions. Improvements included increased power and resistance to electronic jamming. Skynet 4D was launched in 1998, 4E in 1999 and 4F in 2001.[15]

Skynet 4 provides SHF and UHF services using earth cover, wide area and spot beam coverage

Skynet 5Edit

An artist's impression of a Skynet 5 satellite

Skynet 5 is the next generation of satellites, replacing the existing Skynet 4 Stage 2 system. It has been contracted via PFI to a partnership between Paradigm Secure Communications and EADS Astrium, a European spacecraft manufacturer. EADS Astrium were responsible for the build and delivery of Skynet 5 satellites in orbit, whilst subsidiary company Paradigm will be responsible for provision of service to the MoD. Paradigm have also been contracted to provide communications services to NATO using spare capacity on the satellites.

The Skynet 5 satellite is based on the Eurostar E3000 bus design, weighs about 4,700 kilograms (5.2 short tons), has two solar panels each about fifteen metres long, and has a power budget of five kilowatts. It has four steerable transmission dishes, and a phased-array receiver designed to allow jamming signals to be cancelled out. They will also resist attempts to disrupt them with high-powered lasers.[17]

The first of the constellation of Skynet 5 vehicles (Skynet 5A) was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket at 22:03 GMT on 11 March 2007, in a launch shared with the Indian INSAT 4B civil communications satellite, and entered full service on 10 May 2007.[18] The launch was delayed from 10 March due to malfunction of a launch pad deluge system.[19] Skynet 5A successfully separated from its launch vehicle and Telemetry was acquired by its dedicated Control Centre approximately 40 minutes after launch.

The second Skynet 5 UK military communications satellite (Skynet 5B) was launched at 22:06 GMT on 14 November 2007, from Kourou in French Guiana, aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket. This launch was delayed from 9 November due to problems with the electronics on one of the Solid Rocket Boosters, and 12 November due to a fueling problem with the launch pad. At time of launch the Ariane 5 ECA launcher set a new record on this mission, deploying a total payload of more than 8,700 kg.[20]

The third Skynet 5 UK military communications satellite (Skynet 5C) was launched at 22:05 GMT on 12 June 2008, from Kourou in French Guiana, aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.[21] The launch had been delayed twice. Originally scheduled for 23 May, more checks were carried out on the launch vehicle and the launch was rescheduled for 30 May.[22] A problem with the launch software during pre-launch checks led Arianespace to reschedule the launch for a second time to 12 June.[23][24]

The fourth Skynet 5 UK military communications satellite (Skynet 5D) was launched at 21:49 GMT on 19 December 2012, from Kourou in French Guiana, aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.[25]

The programme marks a change of approach in the UK from traditional defence procurement methods to a services-based contract which also includes provision of leased ground terminals, Reacher vehicles, the Satellite Communications Onboard Terminal (SCOT) for ships, and the associated baseband equipment.

Initially two Skynet 5 satellites were to be built, with insurance covering any launch loss; the MoD later decided to have a third satellite built in advance, and later still to have the third satellite launched to serve as an on-orbit spare.[26]

Technical specificationsEdit

The fleet of military X-band satellites have been specifically designed to support smaller, low powered, tactical terminals. Each Skynet 5 satellite is equipped with:

High power 160W TWTAs on all transponders, giving 56 dBW peak EIRP in each transmit spot beam and 41 dBW peak EIRP in each global beam per transponder.15 active transponders ranging in bandwidth from 20 MHz to 40 MHzUp to 9 UHF channelsMultiple fully steerable downlink spot beamsOn Board Active Receive Antenna (OBARA) capable of generating multiple shaped uplink beamsFlexible switching capability allowing connectivity between any uplink beam and at least two downlink beamsNuclear hardening, anti-jamming countermeasures and laser protection[

Eye in the Sky is a 2015 British thriller film starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman and Barkhad Abdi.[3] The film, directed by Gavin Hood based on a screenplay by Guy Hibbert, highlights the ethical challenges of drone warfare. Filming began in South Africa in September 2014.

>>569979

A multinational team works on the capture mission, linked together by video and voice systems. Aerial surveillance is provided by a USAF MQ-9 Reaper drone controlled from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada by USAF pilot, 2d Lt Steve Watts. Undercover Kenyan field agents, including Jama Farah, use short-range ornithopter and insectothopter cameras to link in ground intelligence. Kenyan special forces are positioned nearby to make the arrest. Facial recognition to identify human targets is done at Joint Intelligence Center Pacific at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The mission is supervised in the United Kingdom by a COBRA meeting that includes British Lieutenant General Frank Benson, two full government ministers and a ministerial under-secretary.

Farah discovers that the three high-level targets are now arming two suicide bombers (one is American) for what is presumed to be an attack on a civilian target. Powell decides that the imminent bombing changes the mission objective from "capture" to "kill". She informs drone pilot Watts to prepare a precision Hellfire missile attack on the building, and solicits the opinion of her British Army legal counsel. To her frustration, her counsel advises her to seek approval from superiors. Benson asks permission from the COBRA members. Citing conflicting legal and political views and contrasting the tactical value of the assassination with the negative publicity of killing civilians and the status of some of the targets as American or British nationals, they fail to reach a decision and refer the question up to the UK Foreign Secretary, presently on a trade mission to Singapore. He does not offer a definite answer and defers to the US Secretary of State, presently on a cultural exchange in Beijing, who immediately declares the American suicide bomber an enemy of the state. The Foreign Secretary then insists that COBRA take due diligence to minimise collateral damage.

>>569997

Upside down is a V. It could also be a craft.

Q

Eye in the sky.

Movie reference?

Holy shit. I think Q is talking about drone warfare.

WE SEE EVERYTHING. Drones.

These crazy fuckers are spying, attacking and controlling each other from the fucking sky grid.

Drones

Satellites

Chemtrails

Microwaves

Direct Energy Weapons

Interfacing

Etc

Eye in the sky movie was based on real events.

Dr. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky

I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE SKY in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Most of the technologies employed in the film narrative have some basis in reality, though many are still in very early stages, or proof-of-concept, and remain far from the reliable and useful technologies depicted in the film.

EYE IN THE SKY is a contemporary military drama starring Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, in his last on-screen appearance, in the respective roles of a United Kingdom colonel and general. It was written by Guy Hibbert and directed by Gavin Hood, who also directed Ender’s Game. The narrative of the film begins with an attempt to capture terrorist suspects in Kenya, but evolves into a tense drama over whether to launch a drone strike in order to avert a terror plot, and the morally challenging questions of proportionality given the risk to civilians in the area of the strike. The accuracy of film’s depiction of the military chain-of-command and political control over this fictional joint U.K.-U.S. drone strike in Kenya is also an interesting question of realism, for another review.

Of course, the armed General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone technologies have been around for more than a decade, and are depicted with a great deal of accuracy in the film. These drones are remotely operated by pilots and sensor operators who can be thousands of miles from where the drones are flying. In this case, a U.S. drone pilot, played by Aaron Paul, is stationed at Creech Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas. The film depicts these operators using touch screens, which are not available in the older ground control stations depicted, but are available in the recently updated ground control stations that include multiple screens and joysticks used for videogames.

Much of the drone imagery depicted in the film, the footage we see collected by drone cameras, appears realistic. The actual resolution of those advanced surveillance cameras is classified, but we know that Reaper drones carry the DARPA funded ARGUS-IS and Gorgon Stare systems, which capture 1.8 gigapixel images at 12 frames per second. That is equal to an array of 368 5-megapixel smartphone cameras, allowing an incredible digital zoom while collecting imagery over a large geographic area.

You can see in the film’s trailer several of the more futuristic technologies: a small bird-like drone; an even smaller insect-like drone; and advanced face-recognition technologies. Each of these has a basis in recent and ongoing engineering research, mostly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA) for the Pentagon, but do not yet perform at anything like the level necessary to be used as they are in the film. DARPA is known for funding research into advanced topics that may–or may not–wind up being useful for the military or civilians, such as the ARPA-net that evolved into the internet, and the DARPA Grand Challenge that led to Google’s self-driving car.

Continued

Actual research into bird-like drones includes a DARPA-funded hummingbird drone called the Hummingbird Nano UAV. Built by AeroVironment, it was demonstrated in 2011 as a proof-of-concept for very small drones using wing-flapping for flight control and propulsion. While this biologically-inspired mechanical drone is fascinating, it faces many practical challenges for covert missions including the ability to carry enough battery power to fly more than a few minutes while carrying its camera and other sensors, and being loud enough that it would likely draw attention. DARPA, however, has continued funding work on small high-speed drones capable of obstacle avoidance, which look like the quadrotors we are now accustomed to seeing.

The film also depicts a bug-like drone that is much smaller and flies inside a house without drawing attention. There have been a variety of projects that either attempt to build biologically-inspired mechanical insect drones, or establish remote control over organic insect cyborgs.

Among the most advanced mechanical insects is Harvard’s RoboBee project. This insect-sized drone is capable of flight, and even swimming, though it cannot carry its own battery power, and remains tethered by power cables. It will also be difficult for such small drones to carry much in the way of sensors like cameras and microphones.

DARPA has also been funding research into using living insects as drones, by controlling their nervous system remotely. MIT pioneered this work with large moths back in 2012, while labs at North Carolina State continue the research. UC Berkeley had a similar project using large beetles.

The other technology that is frequently employed in the film is face recognition. We see several examples where a full front of a face is matched to a mug shot or ID photo. This technology has been around for a while, and is even used by Facebook to identify your friends in your photos. The technology is far from perfect, however, and a recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study found error rates in the single digits for the best of the commercial algorithms it tested. This error rate is only attainable when the database used contains photos taken in controlled and standards-compliant conditions. The same algorithms don’t work well on webcam images, and would not work well if the terrorist suspect you are looking for has not sat down for an ANSI/NIST ITL 1-2011 Type 10 standard photo portrait. Even more difficult is recognizing someone in an image when their face is partially obscured by sunglasses, veils, or is only seen in profile. Under such conditions, and without databases containing profile shots, face recognition is highly unreliable, which makes it all the more worrisome that such technologies might be used to confirm identities for individuals on terrorist targeting lists.

In the end, the film is compelling because of the moral questions it poses, and the brilliant acting work. A key part of the moral calculus that the characters in the film struggle with is the estimate of civilian casualties that are likely to result from the drone strike. We even see the colonel in charge of the drone operation, played by Helen Mirren, demand of an underling to adjust the parameters to shift the likelihood of civilian deaths to a more desirable percentage in order to appease her commanders. That bit of technology is called BugSplat, and it is a real software tool that has been used since 2003 to estimate the collateral damage from Air Force bombs. BugSplat actually got its name from the shape of the probabilistic damage area map it produces, but has been much maligned as the term has come to be used by military personnel to refer to collateral damage victims of drone strikes.

EYE IN THE SKY is a film that is definitely worth viewing. As you watch it, keep in mind that while some of the advanced technologies depicted are not yet out in the field, many are only a few years away from being a reality.

Living insects as drones

Gates foundation GMO mosquitos

The other technology that is frequently employed in the film is face recognition. We see several examples where a full front of a face is matched to a mug shot or ID photo. This technology has been around for a while, and is even used by Facebook to identify your friends in your photos. The technology is far from perfect, however, and a recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study found error rates in the single digits for the best of the commercial algorithms it tested.

Happening in India and with refugees

>>570100

Ty

>>570181

8 million + children disappear

YEARLY.

Across the World — There’s Something More to Child Trafficking Than Most Think

November 14, 2017 by Edward Morgan

The number of children that go missing each year across the world is staggering: 8 Million! That’s 320 million children in the past four decades alone.

Clearly, there’s something more to the story.

According to many whistleblowers, after the second world war we have developed a large space fleet, established extensive colonies on the Moon and Mars and we have companies that already mine for rare metals in the asteroid belt.

We should also take into account the huge underground bases, built on all continents (some of which are 30 stories deep).

All these projects require slave workers and that’s the final stage of child trafficking.

Of course, many of the children are being used for sex, ritualistic sacrifice, organ harvesting, etc., here, on Earth, but most of them are being shipped to these secret colonies and raised as slaves.

Try telling this to the world and you’re immediately going to be labeled “insane.”

https:// www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http:// www.omnibus.gr/images/usrImage/0083270001409480651..pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiMjZnPw9jZAhWa3oMKHXQpAuAQFjAFegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw0XGZOEQPSRWeIlxTjib7KI

>>570257

Wait & see. Re_read drops - you have more than you know. Eyes in the SKY. SUM of ALL FEARS //\ Q

>>570262

Notice the Symbol?

>>570284

Humans are currency