so would this be a little bad for the us naval movements?

Question

http://blog.meebo.com/map

this map is updated every 5 minutes and well from prior experience i know the dots in the middle of the oceans would obviously be us naval vessels, especially if they don't move much in 15 minutes...

a little war info for the wierdos

agreed, not sure if merchant ships have internet though,

but on second thought i decided that they could be cruise ships... but looking at how far into the ocean they are i would not be sure, and as for oil tankers being less of a security risk i would say it could be that too, so no way to tell unless google earth sattlite pictures get updated faster in the future and would be able to compare both maps.... someday that will be a problem and i know the millitary hates this but the freedom of information act still hold s for some....

but i feel the sooness of one will be a coming delay in streets near you
no worries then

although on another though a ship would need a large enough power supply to run an attenna to get its own ip address through sattalite so yes only a naval carrier has this technology that i am aware of

and after comparing to a map i found that they are all islands....

Answer 1

Not bad at all. One of the favorite tricks for a ship to do is go to 'EMCON Zero' (no transmissions of any sort) while another platform starts radiating signals that pretend to be the first ship. This way you will think that we have a carrier battle group in the middle of the ocean while in reality it is launching an airstrike from 50 miles off your coast.

Answer 2

Obviously you have no clue abut the Navy. Navy ships do not operate on the Internet openly. Instant messengers are not allowed on any military computers, especially Navy one. The Navy's NMCI doesn't allow them to work. So this site is a bunch of bunk. The bandwidth used by the military is secure bandwidth that civilian equipment don't have the capability to listen in on. You can't be that much of a simpleton to think the military would let general public know where exactly ships are, you are most likely looking at merchant ships and small islands. LOL you didn't even read what it said, those are IM's sent through meebo, Military doesn't even use meebo. IT's either DOD network system, or for Navy and Marines it's NMCI. No outside network IM systems work on DOD network, or NMCI.

Answer 3

Some of those dots in the ocean could be sites on tiny islands that are too small to show up on the map. For example, the one I saw in the Pacific Ocean looks to be at about the location of Guam -- an island.

And since each dot probably represents many IMs, messages sent from US naval vessels probably won't show up.

In addition, do you think the US Navy is the only source of IMs in the oceans?

So, it really is nothing to be concerned about.

Answer 4

the navy doesnt use an antenna to get its internet its a special thing and those arent navel ships those cant be tracked like that. my husband is a sailor. he cant even tell me his ships movements so why on earth would a website have it. its a violation of opsec

Answer 5

those dots could well be merchant shipping. just a thought