• mriguy@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    If all White House communications go through Starlink, Musk has access to all of it, to use as he sees fit. Blackmail, enriching himself, selling to the highest bidder. Great move for him financially.

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      12 days ago

      I mean I’m hoping all communication is over SSL/TLS so he would likely only have DNS information.

      Not to say this isn’t absolutely horrible and unnecessary, but it isn’t likely as bad as it could be. (Unless Starlink does some man-in-the-middle attacks, and/or has full control of the White House systems to install Starlink certificates, which is a possibility.)

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      13 days ago

      Yes, yes I am. Can you tell me which security standard you are using? WEP or WPA? (If they answer WPA) And which type?

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        Don’t mock them. Snowflakes will remove WPA just because they can’t explain it hence it’s bad and you’ve got nothing to hide if you’re not guilty. So no more wireless protection and police are allowed to connect and check your home networks without a warrant.

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    13 days ago

    It’s a good backup internet service to avoid BIFF. But it reads like they are piping in internet from a datacenter, so just using starlink as an ISP.

    Why? $$$. I bet the whitehouse spends a lot on internet.

    Also, it’s probably really easy to perform traffic inspection using starlink vs an established, regulated ISP.

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      13 days ago

      Eh, it’s decently low latency. Around 40ms or so. That doesn’t make it useful for them though. There’s absolutely no -legitimate- reason for it in the white house. As for illegitimate reasons, why could Musk possibly want a connection inside the white house that has no oversight other than his own…?

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        60+Ms at a minimum is not low latency. What are you on about? I have 10ms from coast to coast on residential fiber.

        Government installs which were previously on fiber are being switched to this bullshit. Fiber international interconnect to Australia right now is 13ms from DC to Sydney. Big fucking difference.

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    Because unlike fiber, which you can install and reasonably expect to work with minimal maintenance or other costs for years, Starlink has a guaranteed revenue stream by way of planned obsolescence. We will be constantly launching satellites to keep up replacement of the ones that are deorbitted, and that cost will naturally be passed on to the taxpayer.

    Not that fiber installs aren’t also a grift. After all, how many times has the American taxpayer paid for rural broadband?

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    13 days ago

    Because trump wants to reward leon for his servitude and contributions with a huge ass government contract.

    Starlink is free the first month, but after that it’s 19,999,999.00 a month. Data theft is a free bonus.

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    13 days ago

    Oh yes, please do “improve”… With the Starlink priority plans you’ll have amazing speeds such as 40-220 Mbps down/8-25 Mbps up 😂😂

    They’re gonna shit their pants with excitement when they experience these speeds^^

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      Don’t forget the latency and QoS that’ll probably be done haphazardly limiting everyone to just a sliver of the total available bandwidth.

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        I mean it’s a great product. For anyone living in a place where Fiber, 5G, or even a classic ADSL connection isn’t available. If you use it in a well developed area that would offer you any of the above, you’re a moron

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      They’ll be able to drive home and shit in the comfort of their own homes with those speeds. They’ll have dumped their load before the page loads.