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

• 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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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sipr is very strict about what it is letting connect to it. Which is why you rarely hear about breaches. Notable incidents like Manning or Snowden both involved usage of physical media, which has been severely restricted since. Plus Snowden was an admin, and not on SIPRNet, but some NSA systems.

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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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