• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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.

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        9 months ago

        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?

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          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.

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              You think that was my claim? Moron.

              Why can the NSA do that? Do you know how it works? Because I do. Do you think StarLink traffic would be routed rhrough US-controlled servers to reach Russia? Do you think they can instantly decrypt VPN traffic and not the routing data?

              Again, you are assuming everything and know nothing. You are basically (again BASICALLY) claiming a VPN is useless because DNS is insecure … which is true in the sense that DNS still exposes what you are looking at or communicating with generally, but in reference to compromising traffic, it is utterly and completely WRONG.

              Even if the NSA targets them. Even if the NSA can crack custom applied encryption that A WORLD POWER would ABSOLUTELY DO, they aren’t cracking it instantly. Even if it were just a few minutes, a few minutes can make a world of difference on the battle field. That’s the difference between a supposedly secret meeting of officers getting blown up, or evacuated before the cruise missile hits.

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                You think that was my claim? Moron.

                Namecalling makes you look like the moron.

                Why can the NSA do that? Do you know how it works? Because I do. Do you think StarLink traffic would be routed rhrough US-controlled servers to reach Russia? Do you think they can instantly decrypt VPN traffic and not the routing data?

                https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden

                Again, you are assuming everything and know nothing. You are basically (again BASICALLY) claiming a VPN is useless because DNS is insecure … which is true in the sense that DNS still exposes what you are looking at or communicating with generally, but in reference to compromising traffic, it is utterly and completely WRONG.

                What the hell does DNS have to do with anything I said?

                Even if the NSA targets them. Even if the NSA can crack custom applied encryption that A WORLD POWER would ABSOLUTELY DO, they aren’t cracking it instantly.

                NO shit. They’re doing blanket collection and cracking what is pertinent. My point is no matter what you do to stay anonymous and secure online, they can always track it back to you. That’s enough reason for them to plant evidence or just bag you and make something up later. Therefor encryption is inherently useless when the government can violate the rights it pretends to be protecting.

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            9 months ago

            Do you think Russia doesn’t have the internet or something? Do Russians not have cell-phones? What do you think Starlink actually is?

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              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.

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                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.

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                  9 months ago

                  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?!