Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’?
Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’?
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Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’?
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"Are you suggesting I don't understand Wi-Fi?", US Press secretary... Probably
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Ominous voice: "She doesn't."
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It’s not ominous; that’s just the narrator. It’s their job to sound serious. Simply professional courtesy, you see.
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Yes, yes I am. Can you tell me which security standard you are using? WEP or WPA? (If they answer WPA) And which type?
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Don't mock them. Snowflakes will remove WPA just because they can't explain it hence it's bad and you've got nothing to hide if you're not guilty. So no more wireless protection and police are allowed to connect and check your home networks without a warrant.
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If all White House communications go through Starlink, Musk has access to all of it, to use as he sees fit. Blackmail, enriching himself, selling to the highest bidder. Great move for him financially.
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I mean I'm hoping all communication is over SSL/TLS so he would likely only have DNS information.
Not to say this isn't absolutely horrible and unnecessary, but it isn't likely as bad as it could be. (Unless Starlink does some man-in-the-middle attacks, and/or has full control of the White House systems to install Starlink certificates, which is a possibility.)
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They have zero idea. It's bidirectional satellite, and not low-latency, so...ELON SAID SO
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Eh, it's decently low latency. Around 40ms or so. That doesn't make it useful for them though. There's absolutely no -legitimate- reason for it in the white house. As for illegitimate reasons, why could Musk possibly want a connection inside the white house that has no oversight other than his own...?
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60+Ms at a minimum is not low latency. What are you on about? I have 10ms from coast to coast on residential fiber.
Government installs which were previously on fiber are being switched to this bullshit. Fiber international interconnect to Australia right now is 13ms from DC to Sydney. Big fucking difference.
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I question if this fulfills security requirements.
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I don't. I'm sure it doesn't.
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Well probably the other way around. To protect DOGE from oversight
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Hmmm, monitoring employees and funneling info, huh?
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Oh yes, please do "improve"... With the Starlink priority plans you'll have amazing speeds such as 40-220 Mbps down/8-25 Mbps up 😂😂
They're gonna shit their pants with excitement when they experience these speeds^^
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Yikes I had no idea the speeds were so bad. Even my Australian internet is significantly faster
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I mean it's a great product. For anyone living in a place where Fiber, 5G, or even a classic ADSL connection isn't available. If you use it in a well developed area that would offer you any of the above, you're a moron
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That's just the new direct line to our great comrade Putties poot.
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May be that official comms are MITMed by the three letters, as they should be, and they need a secure channel to commit treason on.
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, as they should be, and they need a secure channel to commit treason on.
This is the $64,000 answer. It gives them a private, unmonitored channel to contact their handlers.
It also gives their handlers a private channel to touch their network.
Wonder if there are any zerodays in starlinks config....
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Grifters gonna grift
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Like his semen he spreads his companies everywhere.
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Because now Mush gets to monitor all that is done and said digitally in the whole government
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Starlink tax breaks next year
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It's a good backup internet service to avoid BIFF. But it reads like they are piping in internet from a datacenter, so just using starlink as an ISP.
Why? $$$. I bet the whitehouse spends a lot on internet.
Also, it's probably really easy to perform traffic inspection using starlink vs an established, regulated ISP.
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Because trump wants to reward leon for his servitude and contributions with a huge ass government contract.
Starlink is free the first month, but after that it's 19,999,999.00 a month. Data theft is a free bonus.
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It’s in series for rubes.
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Because Musk has mad conflicts of interest
A laundry list