While neither the regime nor SpaceX likes to reveal their cards, hackers and journalists are not deterred by this, and the laws of physics apply to everyone.
Good article. Very interesting.
TL;DR: Starlink recievers use methods to make it so they don’t have to be directly positioned at satellites; this in turn leaves them vulnerable to “side lobe jamming” and GPS spoofing. The suggestion is to point them directly and cover them i.e. in a pit or in a cavity of some such so that the jamming / spoofing doesn’t reach it.
It sounds like the downside here would be that you loose reliability in your connection. Probably fine for most things.
Seems like they’ve already lost the reliability anyway due to the jamming
Iran is the most sanctioned country in the world yet 50,000 Starlink terminals somehow made their way in.
it turns out the not CIA run “National Endowment for Democracy” paid for them
I mean, if you want to promote division within a country, ensuring that countries citizenry has access to your propaganda is pretty important.
Net positive, fuck Starlink and fuck Musk. Time to learn from the persians and block your neighbouring Starlink hardware.
Some peoples only access to reliable Internet is starlink.
I don’t like musk at all, but until there’s a reliable alternative, it may be the only thing people have access to.
This is an argument for community run fiber, not for Musk.
What the shit is up with the forced tracking cookies on this site?
The aim is to prevent as many images and news as possible from reaching the public, which is why the Iranian government is blocking communication network.
No. The aim is to prevent cyber attacks and coordinated sabotage by drone warfare, like Israel used in June in the first hours of their attack, and like the US did when they kidnapped Maduro.
Eh? You don’t need open internet for drone attacks.
I should have clarified. Israel used drones smuggled in by agents, and remote-controlled using the internet, to disable air defenses and infrastructure in the first stage of their attack.
Why the fuck amrikkkans meddle their nose in literally everything? Just leave the world alone you genocidal cunts
Article by a German outlet about violent repression in Tehran, and you crawl out to squeal about the US?
The only violent “repression” was in response to the CIA engineered insurrection which has been used as neocon propaganda to set the stage for Air strikes and regime change for Netanyahu’s benefit.
It would be really interesting to see what the world would actually look like if the CIA was anywhere near as competent as tankies think it is, instead of one of the most inept and ineffective agencies in the history of intelligence gathering and espionage.
Here’s what the world would look like. https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/when-us-regime-change
They’re useless at espionage but great at arming death squads and overthrowing governments.
I’ll give you some credit and assume you’re a Hasbara bot rather than a mouth breather with no object permanence who can’t spend 30 seconds on Google.
lol
What a poor thing, mind so small and forced to live an world so big and chaotic.
What is going to happen when countries decide that they don’t want starlink satellites over thei air space and start to blow them up?
It would be hard to do? How much would that affect the general use of starlink for users on other parts of the world?
Given that space isn’t owned by any one country, and Starlink is a US company, whose services are used by the US government, there’s a very good chance there would be military retaliation.
- Iran is not a ‘regime’. US and the West are. You are just regurgitating primitive US propaganda.
- CIA and Mossad uses Starlink to have contact with their operators on ground. Thousands and thousands of Starlink terminals were sent to local CIA/Mossad agitators that could then report/record the ‘color-revolution’ they created, back to the western propaganda machine. BBC had direct connection to the live propaganda from before the unrest started.
- Why on Earth should ‘people do something’ about Iran defending themselves from an obvious US “regime change” operation ?? Hindering Iran in defending themselves, are just supporting US and Israel in their psychopatic behavior, and revealing that one haven’t yet discarded the Western propaganda.
By now, the US lead ‘regime-change operation’ have failed - miserably. Millions of Iranians went on to the streets and protested pro government, and against the small group of artificially agitated rioters than stood for all the violence/provocations (and filmed/sent via starlink oc).
The ugly and very unpleasant truth for us privacy oriented people, is that US are using us as internet-warriors to breach firewalls setup by attacked nations. ANY nation that does not have an internet firewall and their own social media, will get their population propagandized and be hi-jacked/politically colonized by the US Plutocracy. The ‘wevil ones’ are proclaimed as Dictators/Authoritarians in violent regimes that oppress their people, but the only thing these nations do ‘wrong’, is that they won’t surrender their nations to the US/Western overlords. A fair and humble wish, I think.
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’, bc they have much more freedom than we do in the West, and it is us that are completely propagandized to believe that everyone else is ‘savages’ and needs our Oligarchs to come in and ‘put things in order’ - we are no better than the common shitters of the past that supported and allowed the wipeout of the wevil Indians, supported slavery and colonization throughout the West.
We still moronically believe the embarrassing US narrative of the ‘Wevil non-civilized regimes’ out there, and thus supports the US Plutocracy in constantly killing off/terrorizing millions of people and dozens of peaceful nations/people… Yay for us - the progressive west…
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’,
Oh look, yet another Tankie who thinks the grass would be greener where the lawn describes itself as communist.
How’s that “more freedom” been going for the Uyghur? Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’, bc they have much more freedom than we do in the West
JFC you’re an idiot
You morons will simp for the biggest dictatorial muderers as long as they are anti-west. Go live in Russia if you’re so gung-ho about their freedoms, and try not to get volunteered
Ok buddy. Listen just because the West and the USA are kinda broken and doing fucked up shit right now, doesn’t automatically make “the other side” right or good.
The fact that you think the US is only doing fucked up shit “right now” shows that you have no understanding of US imperialism and colonialism.
Iran government bad. US government and Jewish ISIS are way worse, and not just now.
I didn’t say they haven’t done fucked up shit forever. I’m saying jumping on the fact that they are doing messed up shit right now doesn’t make the “other side” right. No matter how bad the US is, it has no impact on the opinion of their enemies.
‘he was downvoted for speaking the truth’
Least insane .ml tankie
