That’s it! But the underlying idea is solid. I’m sure they took that P-3 apart piece-by-piece to figure out what we had. Even with upgrades the E-3 is still a pretty old platform. The first ones had a keyboard that was ABCDEFG rather than QWERTY because if you could type normally you would overpower the computer.
Right...and given that it was a EP-3 specially configured for surveillance, they were likely able to get some clues about things simply by examining what we were looking for (and at) and just how we were doing that.
I have always felt they should have bailed out of it over the ocean, if that was possible. Sure, it was April, if I recall, so the water would have been pretty cold. Easy for me to say from my computer chair...