Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone

• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are most likely stolen or imported through a third party.

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  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shouldn’t they be capable of detecting where the connection is going and disconnect/block it for specific regions or something? I have no clue how any of that stuff works but this one thing feels like it should be the case.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can’t really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.

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      • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, given that they have access to Internet via starlink, all they would have to do is set up a website and list the IDs, then block everything that’s not there.

        They got me shipment? Add them to the list? No longer own the device? Remove it.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Starlink probably only works once the drone enters Ukraine. Disabling Starlink in that area would cut off the Ukrainian military too. The internet traffic could easily be routed through a VPN in another country, so blocking Russian IP addresses on Starlink wouldn’t work either.

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      • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If Starlink is the internet provider, aren’t they providing the IP address? If they are how would a VPN trick Starlink since the equipment has to connect to Starlink first?

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      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Whitelist/allowlist for this region comes to my mind. But probably some other specific problems would arise from this too. Hmm…

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