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agumonkey 6 hours ago

considering the scale involved, and the OSINT trend, is it possible that people could monitor and correlate stuff like airplane, or us navy activity to deduce when to enter ?

nathancahill 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I saw a tweet about a trader placing an oil bet when they saw two military aircraft turn around on their way to Iran, via transponder. I believe before the deal was announced.

3eb7988a1663 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That also sounds easy enough to fake for some plausible deniability.

yellow_postit 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just as parallel construction [1] is used by law enforcement to conceal methods and practices no reason to not expect the same for financial gain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

huorricannes 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

in fact US army publicly admitting running a disinformation campaign involving flying planes knowing they would be seen by osint in the previous Iran attack from last summer