It would be a shame if some foreign actor could monitor Starlink internal networks.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Anyone see the Johnny English with the American billionaire cyber-terrorist Jason Volta as the main antagonist?
That's how I see news coming from Washington developing on a daily basis.
We need you Rowan Atkinson.
The existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was “overtaxed” so they just threw up satellite instead of , I don’t know, improving the Wi-Fi infrastructure? There’s perfectly fine WiFi at sprawling work and college campuses, and stadiums that seat tens of thousands of people. What a joke.
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The only security this White House cares about is its own power and hiding (for the time being) its complete disregard for anything else.
In any healthy democracy, this would have been seen as a scandal exposing signs of corruption and would have likely resulted in the dissolution of the government and early election.
But the US is not a healthy democracy.
The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.
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it's necessary so the Saudis can livestream all the blowjobs and asslickling happening in the oval office.
President Musk making it feel more like home.
Add 13 children of ambiguous parentage he can ignore, and snug as a bug!
If you live in the DC area, absolutely do NOT sign up for this service.
100% chance that the government, as well as musks companies would be monitoring you directly 24/7.
Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?
Don't support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.
Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.
they're already in, guaranteed
Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.
I wholeheartedly agree.
However, it's hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren't all doing the same thing.
The way I see stuff like this is that you don't have to hand over your information on a silver platter directly to the agents.
Like when a trainload of east germans was allowed to migrate to the west through a separate country, they just had to hand their passports to the Stasi before being let go.
When the Stasi agents came to the train to collect the passports the east germans just threw them on the floor instead of handing them over, that is kinda how this should be viewed.
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"some areas of the property could not get cell service"
Like the bunkers? Like hell did the white house not have cell service.
Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it's probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.
I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?
https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/
I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply "forgot" to tell the incoming Trump administration....
probably more likely they fired the original IT team and replaced them with Muskite interns
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