On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

> You could do a version of the CT canon black globe strike: come out of jump
> in the out-system on a ballistic course toward Interesting Point, deploy
> your umbrella and drift. It would take a *while* to close in and the closer
> you got the more likely it would be that your re-focused heat sig would
> cross the horizon of an outlying passive sensor. But you could probably do
> quite a bit of snooping before that point.

Sure.  Not saying it's foolproof.  But any reasonably large, well
populated system with resources worth fighting over will divert at
least SOME of those resources to basic security concerns, like knowing
who is in their yard, and keeping track of when they arrive and
depart.

The closer the BG gets to any place interesting, the more likely it
will pop up on someone' occlusion monitor.  Still, space is big.  You
never know.

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