alt Hacker NewsWhy is everyone debating some theoretical advanced heartbeat or otherwise people detection tech rather than the absolutely obvious answer - some kind of advanced, specialized transmitter that's designed to be hard to detect and simply transmits the encrypted GPS coordinates of the pilot?
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twic • today at 10:25 AM
Or just rocking up to the nearest village with a thousand dollars in cash and asking where the pilot is.
marginalx • today at 11:29 AM
I think the fear of being located isn't based on the fact that someone can decrypt an encrypted transmission, its simply because someone can trace that a particular location is transmitting some radio waves.
fragmede • today at 12:09 PM
That's a complicated way of describing Professor Xavier's Cerebro, but that's basically how it works.
Because the NY Post ran an article that said
"The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic signal of a human heartbeat"
Note, I agree that it was probably some novel beacon technology. Just answering your question about why people are debating whether it was a device that could detect a human heartbeat from long range.