DEF CON 31 War Stories - CON trolling the Weather - Paz Hameiri

Nearly 1,800 weather balloons are launched across the world on any given day. As the balloon goes up it expands and pops at an altitude up to 33 Km (110K feet) above the earth.The flight payload is called a radiosonde. It measures pressure, temperature, relative humidity, position, and velocity during its flight, and transmits the data to a sounding receiver. One or two missing weather balloons won't impact the daily forecast. However, many missing balloons could lead to errors in …

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