Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What?

  Surface ships are in constant communication with stuff…

  You can’t just find a signal in the middle of the ocean. Musk can find a starlink signal tho, because he can see what Starlink connects to and it’s gps location.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but if they go on mission and “go dark” then you still have this starlink thing that may or may not be disabled by the person smuggling it on board. It may also be connected to official things if the owner has bad intentions, or if someone else who does finds it and co-opts it.

    There is a lot that could go wrong with unauthorized radio transmission equipment on a warship, and not all of it is obvious.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t connect a star link to siprnet.

      The worst a bad actor could do is constantly transmitting location and other combat data.

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      • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can’t connect a star link to siprnet.

        Can you connect a computer? Because if so, that same computer can then be connected to the starlink, no?

        I know absolutely nothing about secure government networking, I’m just kind of assuming that something has to be able to connect to both individually and also simultaneously

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s as easy as plugging in the wrong cable.

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  • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not always

    Ships absolutely practice turning everything off.

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  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on where your sensors are and how much dispersion the dish has. If you are flying a surveillance plane into the “beam” then you can passively spot the ship.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You say that like Elon is personally looking at that information.

    Presumably, there would be a large number of people at the company with access to that information, all of whom could be bribed or otherwise persuaded to share it.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can’t just find a signal in the middle of the ocean.

    Uh, this was the primary way the Allies defeated the U-Boats in WWII.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No they actually do go dark sometimes for exactly this reason. Of course there’s always some signal source but it’s the difference between lighting up like a Christmas tree and running a single IR light.

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