Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'

[David Honig]

At 08:21 AM 3/1/01 -0500, An Metet wrote:
>[Sorry about the name. "Pirate" satellites don't sound 'dangerous' 
>enough to need shooting down.]
>
>
>Suppose can-sats WERE launched illegally, and then started broadcasting 
><time synchronisation signals/OTP/other cypherpunk related> signals, 
>along with a spoken commentary by Radio Free North America (so Joe 
>Sixpack has an excuse when those nice detector van gentlemen knock on 
>his door and ask why he's listening to 128.0 FM) 
>
>What could a the US Government do about the satellite, other than make 
>an example out of the miscreants who launched it?

Of course all these questions (and answers) apply to folks
sending IP packets too.  But that's why you included the Sealand ref.,
no doubt.