Yeah, sure, if it was an adversary like the U.S. government and not a Russian ally like Elon Musk…
Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Isn’t that a massive security risk?
Like, what if the U.S was using Roscosmos satellite links in drones? I’d certainly be raising an eyebrow.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 days ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, but it’s not a government satellite system, it’s an independent Internet provider. It is always possible that the US government/military has access on the back end, but that’s not guaranteed. And since Ukraine is using Starlink, they can’t exactly just disable all access in the region.
Kind of makes sense for Russia to try and use Starlink at least a bit to test the waters and see what sort of Intel the US has access to directly through it.
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It is guaranteed, actually. US law imposes requirements on telecoms providers to support wire taps
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A wiretap is different than having something like backdoor access at will for military use.
Dioxid3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don me a tinfoil hat, but I think it is absolutely within the realm of possible that half my networked electronics has a backdoor to one or another governmentsl agency. Or that my ”encrypted” WhatsApp conversations are available to US officials if need be.