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Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @exponentfm. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

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    Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014

    To be clear, finding MH370 survivors is paramount. But there are huge implications to revelations of US tracking http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304185104579437573396580350-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj …

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      2. Adam Wride‏ @adamwride 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent isn’t Rolls Royce a UK company?

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      3. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @adamwride

        @adamwride they’re no longer going with the Rolls Royce story after MA denied it. Seems like it was an attempted coverup

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      4. Adam Wride‏ @adamwride 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent my bet? MA didn’t pay, but the service was never turned off - data just never turned over from Boeing to MA.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @adamwride

        @adamwride one step further: was the fact data not turned off an accident, or required by US?

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      6. Adam Wride‏ @adamwride 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent thinking more on this… if US were spying, they’d require full data from Boeing. Quiet pings - pretty benign.

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      7. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @adamwride

        @adamwride some have theorized it’s actually US ability to listen in on VHF transmissions. Also plausible.

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      8. Adam Wride‏ @adamwride 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent regardless - you know someone at NSA is saying right now “You know, if we only…”

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      2. David Corsi‏ @boldblue737 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent Ben the airplanes aren’t be tracked it’s the satellite ability to monitor VHF radio that US is beating around bush on.

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      3. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @boldblue737

        @dcorsi since when does a “ping” contain latitude, longitude, altitude, etc?

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      4. David Corsi‏ @boldblue737 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent acars is a text like data stream that can contain that data but I don’t think these messages did it is satellites detecting VHF

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      5. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @boldblue737

        @dcorsi got it

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      6. End of conversation
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      2. Brandon Paddock‏ @BrandonLive 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent What in that article refers to US tracking?

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      3. Brandon Paddock‏ @BrandonLive 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @BrandonLive

        @monkbent Or do you just mean huge implications from the possibility that it kept flying for hours after last radar / transponder signal?

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      4. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @BrandonLive

        @BrandonLive Why do you think this was kept secret for days, and then pinned on RR? China will be pissed

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      5. Brandon Paddock‏ @BrandonLive 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent It sounds like this is an instrumentation system which the airline set up or at least knows about, right?

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      6. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @BrandonLive

        @BrandonLive they’ve denied all knowledge

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      7. Brandon Paddock‏ @BrandonLive 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent Of this specific data, not of the telemetry mechanism I thought.

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      2. Benedict Evans‏Verified account @benedictevans 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent @rohit_x_ um... There's no such revelation in that story.

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      3. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 13 Mar 2014
        Replying to @benedictevans

        @BenedictEvans @rohit_x_ MA explicitly refused Boeing tracking, says nothing from RR. So where does the data come from?

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