More secure IRC-casts

[Freddy Krueger]

We have a couple of off season developments that will affect IRC-casting
of sporting events. First, the server operator who was going to charge
exorbitant fees for running your own room has put them off for the time
being. This is because he would have to reverse-engineer and then modify a
lot of the code for the chat software he ueses.
Another development is that they have, on that chat room, modified the
code so that a users internet address no longer shows up when you do a
/whois command. This means that originating IP is ONLY known to the server
operator. This means that we only need to use an open Socks proxy, if we
are covering events inside the USA. This will greatly reduce the problem of
"ping timeouts" that knock us off the air. Being knocked off the air by
this one reporter (until her boyfriend put a stop to it) is not the only
reason for being knocked off the air. Sometimes the proxies we use, in third
world countries, are so lagged, that we get knocked off the air.
We have also employed new technologies with RF tracking devices cannot
POSSIBLY detect. We now use, whenver possible, a satellite phone. Satellite
phone calls are getting cheaper and the way the antenna works, all the
radiation is beamed upwards towards the sky, so that any of the satellites
overhead in low Earth orbit can get the maximum signal. The antenna looks like
an ordinary rubber-duck antenna. but it is sendinng all of the radiation
skywards, so that anyone on the ground with an RF tracking device wont get
anything. With all the radiation pointing skywards, there is nothing at
ground level that RF tracking devices will be able to pick up.
Also, the frequency range from 11.4 to 14.7 GHz would make it difficult to
track a signal becuase as satellites come into and out of range, the phone
will change frequencies constantly to communicate with sattellites that are
in range. Becuase of 3,400 MHz bandwidth that is used, being able to track
and find someone using a satellite phone would be next to impossible. This
allowed us to IRC-cast the 3rd GP event from Pyongyang last November without
getting caught. The way a satelliete phone works, there is no POSSIBLE way
that either arena security, ISU officials, or the Political Security
Beaureau (North Korea's Secret Police) would have been able to find me with
any RF tracking device.
Our next IRC-cast will be of the UEFA soccer final at the end of this
month in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

[Freddy Krueger]

[snip other fantasy ravings]
The way a satelliete phone works, there is no POSSIBLE way that either
arena security, ISU officials, or the Political Security Beaureau
(North Korea's Secret Police) would have been able to find me with any
RF tracking device.

Sigh -- you are back in your "stupid place" again, aren't you? Why do you
insist on living in this fantasy world where your radio transmitter cannot
be detected? Let me assure you -- your satellite phone is very detectable,
even more so than a normal cell phone.
Have I not been clear enough about this in previous postings? If not, let
There is no radio transmitter that is undetectable. It does not matter
what antenna it uses. It does not matter what frequency (or frequencies)
it uses. It does not matter if the frequency shifts.

However, the antenna in one of these portable satellite phones is pointing
all the radiation upwards in a narrow beam. All the radiation is going skyward,
so nobody at ground level is going to be able to either track or listen in on
my transmissions.
We used such phones on three occasions in North Korea to cover events there
and were NEVER detected. Because all the radiation was being pointed up to the
sky, there is no POSSIBLE way that the Political Security Beaureay (North
Korea's Secret Police would have been able to find us from ground level. They
would have had to use a low flying aircraft to track us, since they would
not be able to track us from ground level. We did this for the GP Final in
2000, the ISU Congress in 2002, the Kim Il=Sing Trophy in 2003, and we will
be doing it again at the 2005 Four Continents competition in Pyongyang. And
we got that covered too, we have people listening for low flying aircraft,
and when we are told any low flying aircraft are in the area, we shut down
for a few minutes, as using an RF spectrun analyser from a low flying aircraft
is the ONLY way the North Korean authorities would be able to detect us using
a satellite phone.