Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

Wed Apr 9 15:23:21 UTC 2008

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:15:03 -0600
"Martin Hannigan" <hannigan at 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