Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
Air Force Dumb
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My first thought upon seeing this yesterday was: "It's 100% full of cameras and mics probably sending to the Saudis over starlink" let's see how close I was. Haven't read yet.
(My 2nd thought: "Holy shit Saudi Arabia! I bet they deliver it September¡!)
After reading it gets better. The retrofits would take until 2030 at the earliest and cost more than the two new Boeing planes being built to replace airforce one.
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Why would the Qataris install surveillance equipment for the Saudis? They are not friends.
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Reminds me of the bugging of the new embassy in Moscow. A fun read about it in Air and Space Forces Magazine: Cleaning the Bug House.
...“Mr. Ambassador, these are the plans that disclose how the bugging of your embassy took place, and these are the instruments that were used,” said Bakatin. “I want them turned over to your government, no strings attached.” Strauss was dumbstruck, according to an account of the incident he gave later that year. After years of denial, the Soviet intelligence arm was admitting its role in one of the most notorious espionage incidents of the 1980s: It had packed the new US Embassy office building in Moscow with sophisticated listening devices. The edifice’s structure was so riddled with bugs that some US counterespionage experts described it as nothing but a giant microphone.