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Illegal Starlink terminals helped Russia advance at front line, particularly in capturing Vuhledar. (www.pravda.com.ua)

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

For very obvious reasons, Ukraine may not want musk to have every single units position. Let alone groups that supplemented their own resources with Amazon.

Could starlink figure this out? Yes. But it would make everyone involved uncomfortable to know the theoretical has become documented and easily searchable.

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I bet money Russia starts getting absurdly good. And they'll have really good info. And it will be because of starlink.

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Location info shouldn't be needed, though. (Even though they should technically be able retrieve location data from any terminal on their own already. It's all their hardware and network.) They should be able to geoblock traffic from Ukraine/Russia while having a kind of Allow filter for the terminals they know they provided for use by Ukraine.

It's the same concept as blocking a country's domains but allowing certain domains of that country through for emails. They just need to setup a "spam" filter.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Again, that assumes that Ukraine want a company run by a Russian asset to know every single device.

But also? There is a lot of value in civilians being able to reach the outside world as well. Especially under an occupation.

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