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>>There aren't enough anti satellite missiles in the world to make a dent, it would cost trillions to manufacture enough Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites.
I don't believe this is true. And of course detonating nukes in space would be an act of war against the whole world.
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If it were BGP/routing, you would think we'd be able to still get a signal and the modem would think it's healthy (although maybe not if the issue prevented us from obtaining our public IP), we just wouldn't be able to route to any dst. In the current case we don't have a signal (orange light on the modem)
Does the orange light specifically mean no RF link at all? Or does it include anything that prevents the modem from getting an IP address and route configuration? If the latter, BGP could still be at fault if it took out access to the control planes on the ground. But again all just guessing, from the outside all I see is the BGP routes are still being announced, and everyone seems to be seeing 100% packet loss and z…
Could almost make one paranoid about some large level state-backed action being coordinated towards an attack of some kind.
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>>There aren't enough anti satellite missiles in the world to make a dent, it would cost trillions to manufacture enough Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites.
> Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites. Um, no. Not even vaguely remotely. "Thousands of satellites" is a lot by historical human space standards, but compare that to the number of cars you see every day and then remember these are spread out over an area bigger then the surface of the entire planet. Don't be fooled by the simulation maps you can find online, where the satellites and tracks are shown t…
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My money is on a misconfigured switch or hub that allowed a broadcast storm that shut down all of their edge devices! Additional points for a user to cause the loop by plugging an rj-45 where they weren't supposed to, despite no warning or label telling them not to!
...in space?
Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?
My money is on a misconfigured switch or hub that allowed a broadcast storm that shut down all of their edge devices! Additional points for a user to cause the loop by plugging an rj-45 where they weren't supposed to, despite no warning or label telling them not to!
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FYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
Not a very technical root cause analysis you have there. Can you leave geopolitics out of it until it's confirmed? Other social media networks may tolerate this but this is not HN worthy.
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Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.
FYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.