Why was 'SkyCircl.es' born to find an FBI plane that secretly monitors citizens from above?



' SkyCircl.es ' is a bot that captures an airplane that just turns around the city without going somewhere and automatically posts the flight log and registration information of that airplane to Twitter. This SkyCircl.es was developed in response to the discovery of the fact that the FBI is monitoring civil activity from above .

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On April 12, 2015, a 25-year-old black man, Freddy Gray, died during police interrogation in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. A few days ago, a video of police officers in the city of Baltimore shooting a black Mr. Walter Scott leaked , and public distrust of police increased, so Gray's death triggered a large-scale demonstration in the city of Baltimore. Was carried out and developed into a riot.

Riot in Baltimore protests against death of blacks Governor declares emergency 17 international news: AFPBB News
https://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3046707

Benjamin Schein, who ran Scan Baltimore, a site that intercepts the Baltimore Police Department's radio, noticed the existence of an airplane that kept making repeated turns over the rioting city of Baltimore.



Immediately after Shayne's questioning, one of his followers posted the Cessna 182 flight log and registration information. As a result of further research, it was possible that a company named 'NG Research', which was found in the registration information for this airplane, was a related organization of the FBI.



A daily newspaper Washington Post confirmed with FBI spokesman Captain Eric Kowarchik that Captain Kowarchik said, 'In response to the uproar in Baltimore, the FBI will provide aerial photographs of possible criminal activity. To that end, we provided the aircraft to the Baltimore Police Department, which was used to monitor the potential for criminal activity at high altitudes so that police officers on the ground could respond quickly.' Admitted that there was surveillance.

Then, on May 25, 2020, in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the ' George Floyd's death ' incident occurred in which a black man, George Floyd, was killed by police officers. As a result of this, an anti-racism demonstration took place in the city of Minneapolis, and as in the city of Baltimore, some of the demonstrators became mobs and developed into a large-scale riot. The wave of anti-racism movement spread to cities across America.

John Weisman , an engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering, was referring to the FBI's covert surveillance program in 2015, saying, ``The anti-racism demonstration in 2020 also saw the 2015 Baltimore uprising. I think that surveillance from the air will be carried out in the same way as at the time', and we constructed a system to discover the planes involved in the FBI's secret surveillance program.

In addition, Mr. Wiseman launched ' SkyCircl.es ', which discovers aircraft that fly over each city and posts aviation logs and information to Twitter. SkyCircl.es checks airplanes that fly over Baltimore City , Minneapolis City , New York City, Los Angeles City , San Francisco City , Portland City , Chicago City, etc. and automatically tweet the flight log, call sign, and registration information. I will.



According to Mr. Weismann, SkyCircl.es itself is a 'low effort, high impact project' and technically very simple. However, 'the planes reported in SkyCircl.es are not limited to FBI planes that monitor from the sky, but also include power line and pipeline inspections, forest monitoring, test flights, etc.,' Wiseman said. I will .

SkyCircl.es is developed as open source, and the source code is published on GitLab.

John Wiseman / whatsoverhead · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/whatsoverhead

John Wiseman / Advisory Circular · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/advisory-circular/

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