ThousandEyes observed the outage from multiple vantage points deployed behind Starlink: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thousandeyes_thousandeyes-dat...
Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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https://www.starlinkmap.org
Seems to prove GPs point? There are satellites on a polar orbit, which will cover connections at the poles, but those satellites still cover a lot of non-polar ground. If polar orbiting satellites are still working we'd expect to see intermittent or degraded connectivity away from the poles rather than complete outage?
I saw some people report that their dishes are pointing in unusual directions so it would explain that, and that my service is fine since I only use the polar orbiting ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
They would exfiltrate any secret technology first, then do their best to burn the whole network. Potentially you could burn the constellation with reentry.
You'd need to have actual knowledge of the hardware systems and serious access to do anything interesting with thrusters. It may be possible. But just bricking the updates is likely way simpler and less protected.
You have the resources of a country to support any activity. Need computer experts? Take your pick? Astronomers? Mathematician? They have all the expertise required.
The agent getting the right access or finding the right people on the inside and exploiting them successfully without trigger counterintelligence is the hard part.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
They would exfiltrate any secret technology first, then do their best to burn the whole network. Potentially you could burn the constellation with reentry.
Is there any secret technology in Starlink that is not taught in Russian Universities and not described in Soviet scientific works?
Fundamentally maybe not, but knowing what they are actually doing/using is still useful.
If you can get schematics or source code, you can put it to use as well.
And then you can also use communications logs and HR to find other human targets.
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Get an employee to take the network down from the inside. Either exploit existing employees or take years to seed an agent into the company. State level persistent attacks are well funded and have long timelines.
I'd wonder about someone targeting Musk seeing as Starlink is one of his ventures that seems to be running well up to now while his other companies have issues. Having typed that out it seems like a spy movie plot, but that seems to be the world we're living in recently.
I don’t think musk himself would be the weakest link, as the high profile brings scrutiny and thus increased security and counterintelligence. Trying would be a good way to get the FBI to look into you.
Easier and safer to go after unknown employees with access.
Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
#256Pro-tip: Don't host your status / outage page on your own infrastructure. We learned this lesson the hard way at AWS with S3.
Starlink.com is hosted on Azure judging by its DNS records
Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
#257Well my boss is in a cabin in the wilderness somewhere and his only access to the internet is via Starling, so that's great news!
I've heard of IP over pigeons, but using starlings is innovative.
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#258Curious 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!
Are you saying they are one big L2 domain?
I love when devs talk about networking.
Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd need to have actual knowledge of the hardware systems and serious access to do anything interesting with thrusters. It may be possible. But just bricking the updates is likely way simpler and less protected.
You have the resources of a country to support any activity. Need computer experts? Take your pick? Astronomers? Mathematician? They have all the expertise required. The agent getting the right access or finding the right people on the inside and exploiting them successfully without trigger counterintelligence is the hard part.
First you'd have to extract the documentation which may not be available to everyone. I'm just saying that in limited time, the purely software side of starlink is likely much less protected from both access and changes than anything to do with thrusters usage.
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Are you using something like a CradlePoint for your WISP?
If it 1,5 Mb and radio mount on a tower I would more guessing toward the side of PTP line of sight Link or such Mikrotik, Unifi instead of cellular cradlepoint.
In the US:
Ubiquiti, Cambium, probably not Tarana because that's way too expensive for a 1.5Mbps sub. Mikrotik radios are fairly rare here, but the routers and switches are everywhere.