How does Gupta know the actual position of the Devonshire (TND) ?
SeanIsTheOnlyOne
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In TND, Gupta fakes the encoder and uses Carver's satellite to send a signal containing the wrong coordinates.
The thing I don't get is how Carver's stealth ship succeeds in intercepting the Devonshire. To accomplish that, Gupta needs to know its actual position at that specific time, something the GPS can't determine considering the users don't emit when they use the system, they just receive the signal. The other possibility is using the route, the schedule and the speed, but nobody within Carver's team seems to know about these elements. The crew and the British Government surely keep it secret from the rest of the world...
Does anyone here see my point ?
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Also, the fact Gupta seems to know the orbital position of the closest American GPS satellite is quite unlikely. This is not supposed to be public information. The system became fully operational only two years before the release of the movie, and I can hardly imagine the US Defense Department not keeping an eye on it very seriously.
Gupta may be a wonderful hacker, it mainly seems to be a convenient excuse to make him accomplish everything he intends to. Same issue with Silva in SF, but the topics the movie deals with make the plot much less important than its mythological dimension (tolerate it becomes easier).
Furthermore, if Gupta is a genius indeed, then he should be able not to use one of Carver's satellites and then operate in shadow (hacking another satellite for instance).
And I'm suprised the two Chinese pilots don't seem to notice the sinking of the Devonshire. It's something the remaining one should have mentioned in his report, despite the death of his colleague. Then a dialogue between China and England would have been possible, and the actual position of the ship could have been given eventually, not forgetting the Chinese could have sent operatives to explore the wreck immediately after the sinking (only for security matters). Then they would have discovered a missile is missing, another intriguing element of this case...
The plot is full of holes and I just can't believe in the final result at all.