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By now, nearly everyone has heard of Marie Colvin’s death while covering the Syrian uprising. Speculation, which will probably never be proven one way or the other, has it that the reporter and her crew were targeted by the government through use of their satellite phone (sat phone) which they used to communicate their stories out of the country. When the story broke, my boss contacted me to do research on sat phones, specifically in respect to their use in the past to target journalists or others and security. Apparently many journalists use the phones presuming that since they aren’t using a country’s infrastructure they are untraceable, but that isn’t the case. My research uncovered that not only are sat phones traceable with the right equipment, but they have also been used in the past by Russia and other countries to track their political opponents and others. Hopefully the word gets out on the insecurity sat phones present to journalists and situation’s like that of Marie Colvin will be isolated.
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What will you be doing in Malaysia? And what exactly are you doing with Machik!? I know you love your internship and I’d love to hear what it is that you’re doing for them!