Wow this sucks! however if i were iranian brass i would do it too. IT/OT and IoT is not safe full stop. Pull the plug. It wouldnt be pretty over here either, also china already got us good (Volt Typhoon, OPM hack, why bother to list 30 or 40 more?)
Iran is likely jamming Starlink
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Re: Iran is likely jamming Starlink
#12Starlink is primarily a military technology that is used both on a battlefield and to coordinate USA-backed "protests". Why, for instance, it just become free in Venezuela? Every country needs to be able to to defend itself from Starlink.
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#13How likely is it that those "protestors" are US and Israel propped and the plan is to do another regime change via this route? Isn't this "son of the late Shah" a guy from the US?
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#14Starlink is primarily a military technology that is used both on a battlefield and to coordinate USA-backed "protests". Why, for instance, it just become free in Venezuela? Every country needs to be able to to defend itself from Starlink.
Every country needs to be able to defend itself from Russia, too, apparently.
No, only US-backed puppets that US uses against Russia. For example, Russia has very good relations with Belorussia where the government wasn't lured into this role and did not let US to overthrow it.
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#15How likely is it that those "protestors" are US and Israel propped and the plan is to do another regime change via this route? Isn't this "son of the late Shah" a guy from the US?
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#16The article seems quite speculative.
I'm sure the Iranian regime would live to jam starlink, but i don't think we have any ability to know what is actually happening here.
The article claims 80% packetloss. That's still 1 in 5 packets getting through. That is annoying but not going to stop information getting out.
I also wonder, if all other coms are cut off, is it possible star link in the country is just overloaded?
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#18The article seems quite speculative. I'm sure the Iranian regime would live to jam starlink, but i don't think we have any ability to know what is actually happening here. The article claims 80% packetloss. That's still 1 in 5 packets getting through. That is annoying but not going to stop information getting out. I also wonder, if all other coms are cut off, is it possible star link in the country is just overloaded…
In my experience 80% packet loss makes most common protocols basically unusable. Yes you can still get data out...but many apps will just fail due to timeouts and other things.
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#19Which governments are referred to as "regimes" is usually propaganda about how you should feel about them. Consider: all articles written about US using the words "The US regime".
I don't think I've ever read an article using the term "US regime," as that usually refers to an undemocratic or authoritarian government. You might want to clean up your information diet if you're reading lots of articles over the years with that term... Yes it is a value judgement, but Iran's government is nothing if not oppressive and authoritarian. Until recently the US had taken pride in being nothing like a reg…
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#20Under packetloss my assumption is text is king, but I wonder if forward error correcting audio and video is actually better in some ways? Media is information rich. Maybe we're beyond a samzdat moment and the value in comms is contextual immediacy of live feeds, text can squeeze alongside. Long ago, broadcast quality TV was shipped as slow feed. Maybe a tiktok generation goes back there: use a phone on the street (pr…
You are acting like people dont upload videos anymore.
The people filming protests in iran are probably not in range of their home starlink connected wifi. They are almost certainly filming stuff offline then uploading it later, not livestreaming.