Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600
"Martin Hannigan" <hannigan () gmail com> wrote:

> There are a number of unique characteristics of ships including
> profile and radar fingerprint. I'd like to see the images from the
> article that was forwarded to the list.

There are lots of ways to identify ships.  The question is which were
trained on the right area at the right time -- and if the scanning was
done somewhat later, how can you tell which ships had been at that spot
then.

I'm not saying it can't be done; I'm just wondering how.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb