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Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by willcipriano »

itsoktocry wrote: post #73
axegon_ wrote: post #67

Something to note: I would not trust a single sentence coming from this site, knowing who is running it - he is no way affiliated with the Bulgarian military or army and is likely on russia's payroll.

> he is no way affiliated with the Bulgarian military or army and is likely on russia's payroll The sheer number of people - Americans, mostly - who consider Russia this omnipotent boogeyman is both hilarious and scary. Everything is Russian propaganda, you can't believe anything a Russian says, all Russians are evil. I mean, where does this mentality come from? It's insane. In some circles you can literally dismiss…

Look its all well and good to bring up the objective and obvious fact that Russia isn't a threat to the United States, but have you considered the impact on the families of defence contractors?

Haliburton's share price is correlated with the amount of global conflict, but did you know that same share price determines executive compensation? Do you know how much it costs the producers of child killing weapons to hire a twenty something to cheat on their wives with? A lot, therefore we need to keep the stock high and people very afraid otherwise how will the child murdering members of the professional managerial class be rewarded?

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by vdaea »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #58
z7 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>He is quite clearly on the side of russia. He said he "donated $100M to Ukraine" though: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1650008972865224704

I donated $200M to Ukraine.

I donated $400M. Smuggling cocaine into Kiev is expensive, you know...

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by infecto »

qxfys wrote: post #96

Flipping the perspective. Isn't it an advantage for the US intelligence? Much information can be extracted from the transmitter.

Do they really need it? I would assume the US already has the capability to track most/all ground activity near real time.

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by inemesitaffia »

itsoktocry wrote: post #73
axegon_ wrote: post #67

Something to note: I would not trust a single sentence coming from this site, knowing who is running it - he is no way affiliated with the Bulgarian military or army and is likely on russia's payroll.

> he is no way affiliated with the Bulgarian military or army and is likely on russia's payroll The sheer number of people - Americans, mostly - who consider Russia this omnipotent boogeyman is both hilarious and scary. Everything is Russian propaganda, you can't believe anything a Russian says, all Russians are evil. I mean, where does this mentality come from? It's insane. In some circles you can literally dismiss…

Imagine this.

SpaceX solves this by terminating every dish bought outside of Ukraine due to antagonist comments

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by inemesitaffia »

a012 wrote: post #8

The terminal and/or account isn't geo locked? By this news I can register a Starlink account in a country and then move to my not-supported country?

If you pay $200 a month you should be able to use it everywhere in the Americas and south of the Sahara. No India, China or Pakistan though

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

#107

Post by inemesitaffia »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #49
swarnie wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If i manufacture a truck and sell it abroad, and eventually it ends up with a weapons mount in the Syrian desert, am i to blame?

> “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” Musk wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. > “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” Musk wrote. Musk himself has used the ostensible fear…

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Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by inemesitaffia »

weatherlight wrote: post #9
swarnie wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If i manufacture a truck and sell it abroad, and eventually it ends up with a weapons mount in the Syrian desert, am i to blame?

but he can remotely turn them off and has done so in the past..... so...

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Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by lb1lf »

hoseja wrote: post #83
Thlom wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a GPS in the terminal and I can guarantee the gps data is transmitted to Starlink noc/hub in real time. It's trivial to geoblock terminals.

It's also fairly doable to spoof GPS if you care to. And I'm talking about the earlier satellite communicators, not Starlink, which can indeed easily triangulate.

Problem with that in context of Starlink is the terminal needs to know its position relative to the satellite to communicate with it; spoof position, and you're likely to lose comms.

Re: Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai

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Post by qxfys »

infecto wrote: post #103
qxfys wrote: post #96

Flipping the perspective. Isn't it an advantage for the US intelligence? Much information can be extracted from the transmitter.

Do they really need it? I would assume the US already has the capability to track most/all ground activity near real time.

I don't know, tbh. One obvious advantage to me would be traffic analysis from each node. They own the internet; they own the traffic. :)
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