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Russia deploying Starlink in Ukraine—reports
(www.newsweek.com)
Musk is a cancer on humanity.
The real cancer is the capitalism that birthed him.
It can be both - a terrible amoral system that concentrates wealth to the point that major world events are driven by wildcard personalities of rich idiots. And then, the rich idiots themselves.
Wildcard personalities. A dystopia I have never thought of.
Bullseye.
I wonder if he will shut them down to preserve lives.
No.
He's too busy gargling Putins gooch drippings.
Well there's a mental image I could've done without!
No. He's too busy gargling Putins gooch drippings.
@mods
If I violated a sub/instance rule, by all means remove my comment. (and reference the actual rule violation) But just because you personally don't like the thought? Fuck off.
You don't have to agree with my opinions, but silencing critics you don't like is not ok.
I am waiting to find out he violated ITAR.
I don’t think Musk is the rogue element people think he is. I think he’s as integral a part of the US military-industrial complex as any other US tech billionaire, no different from say Peter Thiel or Eric Schmidt.
He's not a bought agent but a useful greedy moron to them.
I presume that by them you mean the Russian state. This sounds like BlueAnonsense.
Have you considered that the NSA likely has full access to everything that happens on Starlink?
They do not. At best, they have the metadata which would let them ID the location of anyone using it, but that is a whole different thing to view the traffic.
The ability to communicate over vast distances is WAY too big of a boon to give to russia... Encryption and ciphers can be added ontop of the connection. Ever heard of a VPN...?
Russia cannot be given StarLink.
Do you think Russia doesn't have the internet or something? Do Russians not have cell-phones? What do you think Starlink actually is?
Do you? You seem to fail to realize what a data link is and that different data can be stuffed in to the generic parts, you fucking numpty.
Do you think StarLink cannot send generic data? Do you think it inspects everything it sends to make sure it's not encrypted? Or does it just route and send the data. You have no fucking clue what you're even trying to retort.
Russia already has the ability to do everything Starlink provides, the difference is it is a bit more convenient. So saying something like this:
Russia cannot be given StarLink.
Is weird and acting like Starlink is some kind of cold-war superweapon that we have to keep from Russia makes no sense.
No, it makes perfect sense to say, "someone gaining billions over here should not be allowed to profit from helping the enemy."
Why is the concept of treason so fucking hard for people to understand?! "You mad someone's helping a horrible person doing horrible things?" ... YES!!! Why the FUCK aren't you?!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainian soldiers say Russia's military have begun using Elon Musk's Starlink satellite communications network in Ukraine, according to a journalist in the country.
"They began to deliver Starlink en masse, via Dubai, accounts are activated, they work in the occupied territories," one of the soldiers with the X handle @Serhij wrote, referring to the four regions of Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia in the fall of 2022—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Musk's SpaceX deployed its Starlink satellites to help provide Kyiv with internet service in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A source in the satellite communications market, familiar with the situation, told ComNews that Starlink systems are being delivered in bulk to Russia, and named Dubai as the location for the wholesale purchase of the equipment.
"Before being imported into Russia, terminals are registered under various foreign companies (Cyprus is often included), after which an account is activated under any name, often a fictitious one," the source said.
Musk previously refused to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch an attack on Crimea to avoid complicity in a "major act of war."
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