Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoYou are all talking about “happy path” situations. Yeah, if the people involved are honest you’re absolutely right.
I’m talking about when a government funded effort, with agents in all reaches of the world, make a concerted effort to get their hands on tech, and trick that tech into working for them.
piecat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.
Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.
That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.
It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
And if that location is within Ukraine?