NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
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Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#2Internet access in Iran was already spotty after the massacres in January [0]
[0] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/internet-shut...
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#3Flagged. Can we please not boost obvious astroturfing campaigns? [1]
"According to The Wall Street Journal, "[some] journalists at Iran International have complained that management is pushing a pro-Saudi, anti-Islamic Republic line". WSJ quoted a former correspondent at the TV station commenting that "a systematic and very persistent push" was made during her time there. Azadeh Moaveni of New York University has charged the channel is an arm of Saudi Arabia: "I would not describe Iran International as pro-reform, or organically Iranian in any manner". Historian Lior Sternfeld [he] stated, "Just as Al-Jazeera promotes Qatari interests, so does this channel promote Saudi interests regarding Iran", while noting a softening in Mohammed bin Salman's attitude towards Iran from around 2021. By 2026, in the estimation of the international relations scholar Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Iran International was possibly being backed by Israel." [2]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukblewis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_International#Editorial_i...
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#4With internet being practically shut down by the “government” except for a very few individuals connected to the regime, my family in Iran has no means to get the alerts about the areas that are getting or gonna get bombed or have been bombed and maybe able to the non existent shelters.
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#5With internet being practically shut down by the “government” except for a very few individuals connected to the regime, my family in Iran has no means to get the alerts about the areas that are getting or gonna get bombed or have been bombed and maybe able to the non existent shelters.
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Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#6Flagged. Can we please not boost obvious astroturfing campaigns? [1] "According to The Wall Street Journal, "[some] journalists at Iran International have complained that management is pushing a pro-Saudi, anti-Islamic Republic line". WSJ quoted a former correspondent at the TV station commenting that "a systematic and very persistent push" was made during her time there. Azadeh Moaveni of New York University has cha…
So is this a lie? Is netblocks also lying? Is everyone astroturfing?
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#7With internet being practically shut down by the “government” except for a very few individuals connected to the regime, my family in Iran has no means to get the alerts about the areas that are getting or gonna get bombed or have been bombed and maybe able to the non existent shelters.
Does your family work at military installations?
Is the U.S. (or other) government posting somewhere publicly that they're going to be bombing some military installation in X minutes/hours?
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#8Surprised the US hasn’t set up some kind of DTC-via-loitering drone technology to allow stock, unmodified cell phones to bypass the internet restrictions.
With air superiority they could do it indefinitely. It could be backhauled via Starlink, each one acts as a Stingray-style cell tower and you launch a couple of them over every major city. Would be slow for tens of thousands or millions of users, but quite technically possible. The same technology would also be practical for disaster relief anywhere else in the world.
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#9Surprised the US hasn’t set up some kind of DTC-via-loitering drone technology to allow stock, unmodified cell phones to bypass the internet restrictions. With air superiority they could do it indefinitely. It could be backhauled via Starlink, each one acts as a Stingray-style cell tower and you launch a couple of them over every major city. Would be slow for tens of thousands or millions of users, but quite technica…
Doesn't GSM require mutual authentication via ki that's stored on the sim card and only known to the operator? Getting stingrays to work is easy mode because all it has to do is relay the traffic while capturing the IMEI/IMSI in the process, but if you want to act as a real cell tower that's much harder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card#Authentication_key_(K...
Re: NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users
#10Surprised the US hasn’t set up some kind of DTC-via-loitering drone technology to allow stock, unmodified cell phones to bypass the internet restrictions. With air superiority they could do it indefinitely. It could be backhauled via Starlink, each one acts as a Stingray-style cell tower and you launch a couple of them over every major city. Would be slow for tens of thousands or millions of users, but quite technica…
What motive would they have to do that?