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Post by inglor_cz »

EthanHeilman wrote: post #60
tuhgdetzhh wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it possible to jam the starlink receiver?

Yes, but it is more difficult than jamming a typical radio antenna because the starlink uses a directed beam rather than a omnidirectional radio broadcast. This either requires enormous amounts of power, targeting the satellite itself with a directed radio beam, or getting between the satellite and the ground station by bouncing a signal off the ionosphere. The above is for jamming directed beams in general. It is li…

Possible, yes, but the Iranian government almost certainly isn't capable of doing so, much less across the entire country.

Even Russians don't seem to be able to jam Starlink on the Ukrainian battlefields.

China, maybe.

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Post by FilosofumRex »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #87
daedrdev wrote: post #84

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Wow its so nice this excuse just happens to shut down the internet when an astronomically unpopular regime faces vast protests after years of economic and political mismanagement

Internet shut downs are really common in authoritarian countries. India used to shut the Internet down in Kashmir every other day, and in random states for random reasons some as seemingly trivial as high school students taking their board exams

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Post by bombcar »

labanimalster wrote: post #134

The discussion about Starlink is interesting, but with only ~0.1% of the population having access, the real story is the 99.9% who are cut off right now. The asymmetry between those who can broadcast to the world and those who can't is staggering — and even among that 0.1%, many are too afraid to broadcast anything, knowing the risks.

The key is that the 99% can transfer data and such internally to the country; the 0.1% can then leak it out.

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Post by inglor_cz »

rvnx wrote: post #71
throw0101d wrote: post #55

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But isn’t Iran under sanctions? Do sanctions not apply when you are the richest man in the world ?

There is an official exemption for Starlink, and quite logically so, because Internet access outside government control is actually bad for the mullahs and somewhat advantageous for the US.

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Post by Noaidi »

tuhgdetzhh wrote: post #45
falaki wrote: post #30

Fortunately, the government cannot enforce complete blackout because thousands of startlink terminals are active inside the country. They have been complaining about it [1] to no avail. Using these terminals activists and journalists continue to upload videos of demonstrations to social media which has enabled analyses that show demonstrations are very wide spread [2] and continue to grow. [1] https://www.itu.int/en/…

Isn't it possible to jam the starlink receiver?

Destroy the satellites? I mean all that have to do is screw up the trajectory of some of the satellites to cause exponential collisions...

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Post by reissbaker »

croes wrote: post #82
uyzstvqs wrote: post #37

Can't wait for a certain dictator to get a cellmate, so that our Persian and Kurdish friends can have freedom, including free unrestricted internet access. And for fellow HN users from there, here's some great stuff: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ https://bitchat.free/

Like when the US removed Saddam? How did that wirk out? You need more of a plan than just get rid of a dictator.

It worked out poorly for America — we got stuck in a long expensive war that we got basically nothing from — but for the average Iraqi? I'd much rather be an Iraqi citizen than an Iranian one, and that wouldn't have been true in the 90s. Saddam was pretty evil — and a bad leader. Iraq's GDP per capita is 6x higher today than it was in 2002, a year before the invasion.

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Post by reissbaker »

cramsession wrote: post #129
jrochkind1 wrote: post #126

I remember reading about how Venezuela had an internet blackout preceding US attack, presumably the blackout was an attack by US "cyber". Ah, here we are. https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/us-cyber-attack-on-venezue... The discussion here assumes that the Iranian government is responsible for this blackout. I actually don't understand enough about network routing to undestand the OP dashboard linked to or be able to…

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Wow, that's a lot of Israeli operatives. Sounds like there are more Mossad agents living in Iran than there are Israelis living in Israel!
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