> If I had to guess, I wonder if they are data relay nodes to collect information from Chinese/Russian bugged equipment that cannot transmit over the internet (eg. compromised equipment in secure military facilities).
An interesting theory, although I would be at least a little worried if secure facilities did not already have some form detection of signals they do not expect.
OTOH, you could instead have something gathering data, and the passing balloon could send a signal to the listening device(s), and then quickly dump+relay the data collected over time.
An interesting theory, although I would be at least a little worried if secure facilities did not already have some form detection of signals they do not expect.
OTOH, you could instead have something gathering data, and the passing balloon could send a signal to the listening device(s), and then quickly dump+relay the data collected over time.