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While neither the regime nor SpaceX likes to reveal their cards, hackers and journalists are not deterred by this, and the laws of physics apply to everyone.

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[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 6 points 12 hours ago

What the shit is up with the forced tracking cookies on this site?

The aim is to prevent as many images and news as possible from reaching the public, which is why the Iranian government is blocking communication network.

No. The aim is to prevent cyber attacks and coordinated sabotage by drone warfare, like Israel used in June in the first hours of their attack, and like the US did when they kidnapped Maduro.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Iran is the most sanctioned country in the world yet 50,000 Starlink terminals somehow made their way in.

it turns out the not CIA run "National Endowment for Democracy" paid for them

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Net positive, fuck Starlink and fuck Musk. Time to learn from the persians and block your neighbouring Starlink hardware. 

[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Some peoples only access to reliable Internet is starlink.

I don't like musk at all, but until there's a reliable alternative, it may be the only thing people have access to.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 6 points 13 hours ago

This is an argument for community run fiber, not for Musk.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr -4 points 18 hours ago

It's Musk, it's shit. People organized revolutions since the dawn of time without internet, they can do it again. In fact, no internet reduces the chance of foreign interference and the people can fee themselves without putting another British/US puppet in power there. 

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good article. Very interesting.

TL;DR: Starlink recievers use methods to make it so they don't have to be directly positioned at satellites; this in turn leaves them vulnerable to "side lobe jamming" and GPS spoofing. The suggestion is to point them directly and cover them i.e. in a pit or in a cavity of some such so that the jamming / spoofing doesn't reach it.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

Thanks for actually discussing the article instead of feeding the trolls

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It sounds like the downside here would be that you loose reliability in your connection. Probably fine for most things.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Seems like they’ve already lost the reliability anyway due to the jamming

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah, you lose reliability. If you put the antenna in a pit it will be limited in its beamforming capability. This restricts the number of visible satellites, leading to situations where no satellites are visible.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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