This article is a repackaging of a Vice article:<p><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-theory-about-a-russian-ship-tapping-syrian-internet-is-weird" rel="nofollow">https://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-theory-about-a-russia...</a><p>The Vice article is low on actual maps and photos.<p>Someone posted to HN a link to a similar article with a lot more visual data<p><a href="http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12696753" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12696753</a>
It's strange that the experts think this is so difficult when there's been so much reporting on this capability in the past.<p>I mean, I think it's extraordinarily difficult, but governments have thrown a ton of money at the problem. :-(