Volunteer troops are using the satellite communications network, operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, in four illegally annexed regions of the country.
  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1957·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think Musk is the rogue element people think he is. I think he’s as integral a part of the US military-industrial complex as any other US tech billionaire, no different from say Peter Thiel or Eric Schmidt.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1137·
        2 years ago

        I presume that by them you mean the Russian state. This sounds like BlueAnonsense.

        Have you considered that the NSA likely has full access to everything that happens on Starlink?

              • krolden@lemmy.ml
                5·
                2 years ago

                You think that was my claim? Moron.

                Namecalling makes you look like the moron.

                Why can the NSA do that? Do you know how it works? Because I do. Do you think StarLink traffic would be routed rhrough US-controlled servers to reach Russia? Do you think they can instantly decrypt VPN traffic and not the routing data?

                https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden

                Again, you are assuming everything and know nothing. You are basically (again BASICALLY) claiming a VPN is useless because DNS is insecure … which is true in the sense that DNS still exposes what you are looking at or communicating with generally, but in reference to compromising traffic, it is utterly and completely WRONG.

                What the hell does DNS have to do with anything I said?

                Even if the NSA targets them. Even if the NSA can crack custom applied encryption that A WORLD POWER would ABSOLUTELY DO, they aren’t cracking it instantly.

                NO shit. They’re doing blanket collection and cracking what is pertinent. My point is no matter what you do to stay anonymous and secure online, they can always track it back to you. That’s enough reason for them to plant evidence or just bag you and make something up later. Therefor encryption is inherently useless when the government can violate the rights it pretends to be protecting.

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1019·
            2 years ago

            Do you think Russia doesn’t have the internet or something? Do Russians not have cell-phones? What do you think Starlink actually is?

              • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                51·
                2 years ago

                Russia already has the ability to do everything Starlink provides, the difference is it is a bit more convenient. So saying something like this:

                Russia cannot be given StarLink.

                Is weird and acting like Starlink is some kind of cold-war superweapon that we have to keep from Russia makes no sense.