by admin | Jan 7, 2025 | Space Piracy
This last Christmas day, the Finnish police and Coast Guard seized the Eagle S, a Russian oil tanker, for deliberately damaging an underwater electric cable. The ship, which is allegedly part of Russia’s “dark fleet” that circumvents oil export sanctions, disrupted...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Dec 15, 2024 | Space Piracy
Thinking about piracy in space means building scenarios and then subjecting them to reality checks. It helps to go for extremes and come up with outlandish ideas. You can always bring them back down to earth, so to speak. In our exploration of the potential for space...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Sep 19, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Space Piracy
The simultaneous explosions of thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon offers a great example of a stealth supply chain attack that few could have ever predicted. It’s a reminder that a determined adversary can be extremely imaginative in...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Jun 23, 2024 | Law Enforcement, Space Piracy
We often hear pushback about the potential for space piracy along the lines of “the barriers to entry are still high” or “space is too expensive for pirates.” This is true if you think that pirates can only get into space by building and launching their own rockets....
