Consider your OPSEC footprint

[NorthernRaider]

I was watching the news on Sky whilst doing the ironing earlier this morning , I watched the missing plane special last night, and something struck me (not montblanc his aim is not good enough )

The news reports said the satellites were picking up objects as small as 1 sq meter in the south Indian Ocean, (up most of us know there's some good satellites out there) But when they started saying stuff like and the "thermal image detectors" were not showing any life signs....................... bare with me on this and the "satellites from" Malaya, China, Australia, US, UK ( Inmarsats) Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, India etc etc etc etc were all reporting finds in the ocean.

How many bloody satellites that are manoeuvrable and can detect heat and can pick out man made objects as small as HALF a SQUARE METER are up there.

So TSHTF the govt of what ever flavour or foreign govts like the EU want to know where the survivors are, if they are thriving etc, those folks if they can access the sats are going to be able to pick up your body heat, cooking and heating, heat from any still working vehicles, if a house in a city is warm when the rest are cold, is that field recently ploughed etc etc.

Just a bit of food for thought I have not considered the various consequences except that I think I need a way to reduce the heat signature from cooking or heating hot water in the immediate aftermath of TSHTF.