[philsalesses]

I wonder if this pattern could still be applied.

For a NOC they'll setup a shell corporation called "Southern Electronics Corporation, LLC" or some other discrete sounding name and have a real website, office address and phone number actually manned, but surely they register the corporations, domains, phone numbers at the same place, staff the phones with the same voices...

Makes me wonder if they fixed the problem or if it's just hidden one level deeper.

[edwhitesell]

There are a lot of services which will act as the Registered Agent for an LLC or corporation. Those can have hundreds of corporations listed at their mailing address with the same phone number. It wouldn't be too difficult to put a few NOC shell corps into the buckets already existing legit businesses.

[scintill76]

Some civilians and journalists uncovered FBI spy planes by correlating generic, formulaic fake company names and shared addresses: https://storify.com/jjwiseman/tracking-fbi-aerial-surveillan...

[kafkaesq]

It is absolutely applicable. In fact this is pretty much how the whole "extraordinary renditions" program was (fairly easily) unravelled by journalists.

Dummy ("brass-plaque") corporations, recycled aircraft registrations, special landing permits at military airports... just a matter of connecting the dots, basically.

[digi_owl]

Old school investigative journalism, in other words.