From: "Phil Payne" 

> They should worry about satellite spotters too. There's a good article
> in this month's Wired about how amateurs are tracking satellites as a
> hobby and getting mysterious calls from "southern gentlemen"
asking for
> orbital data on spy satellites.

Wired, as usual, is nearly four decades late.

http://www.zarya.info/kgs.htm

> I was amused by the stealth satellite which has to know who to hide
> from, so when an amateur spotted it they reprogrammed it to hide from
> areas where the hobbyists live. Well that's what the hobbyists say,
anyhow.

They'll have to keep the bugger turned off, then - these guys are EVERYWHERE.

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