Ukraine’s digital minister has reported concerns about the country’s overreliance on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system amid the war with Russia, The New York Times reports.
I’d be concerned too.
100%
They should be concerned. He has the mentality of a 5 year old and could just decide to cut off their infrastructure on a whim.
And has!
Thankfully he seems to be distracted fucking around with Twitter instead
I’m not saying this is happening, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if we found out that Musk was leaking any and all traffic from Starlink, including Ukraine military comms, in the name of “”“free speech”“”.
That not really possible though. In the same way your isp can’t see what YouTube video you’re watching, encryption stops musk from seeing what the military sends to each other. Unless of course the Ukrainian military doesn’t to the whole security thing, which is doubtful.
DNS can be used to leak some information, but DNS over HTTPS is maturing, and hopefully Ukraine is using something like PGP or the signal protocol.
Most certainly something like https://www.ia.nato.int/niapc/Product/TCE-621-B-DUAL_351
Can’t imagine why, he seems like such a stable genius…
The way you know that Elon is a chaos agent: now that this is reported, he will not feel the need or desire to assure them of his good intentions; he’ll say some crazy, bombastic shit and then do something unhinged and blame the Ukrainians somehow.
Nationalize that shit. Imminent domain Starlink and pay Musk its value. Let him sue if he thinks it’s not enough. It’s not about the money, but having that important tech in the hands of a bureaucracy that will delay political maneuvers and temper tantrums alike from hindering the Ukrainian military.
It’s not a Ukrainian company is the problem. You can’t just nationalise a foreign entity.
Should belong to the UN.
You can do anything…belive in yourself
Couldn’t the US nationalize it and then set up an agency to maintain the network/ensure it doesn’t get shut off again by Elon Musk?
Edit: Obviously I mean the US should do an imminent domain / purchase first, so they have access to the satellites first, smh.
The U.S. isn’t a banana republic. That’s how they roll in Venezuela and it’s not working out so well. They’re certainly not going to undermine the integrity of the U.S. economy to provide marginally more intel security to Ukraine. The government can make an offer to purchase SpaceX, but I don’t see why they need to.
That’s such a strange way to use banana republic. Banana republics were created after the US instituted coups due to the threat of land reform (nationalization of US company owned plantation land). Denying the right to nationalize things is what creates banana republics. (Not that I think anyone should do something so stupid as try to nationalize satellites they have no access to.)
Never put all your eggs in one basket…
Fair. But name me one time Elon Musk has let anyone down?
He hasn’t let me down, all the satellites we have launched w/ him went perfectly. But only having one line of comm’s in a war is insane. Thats the point I was making, not shitting on Elon.
Elon is when Ironman decided to be evil instead.
and stupid
Mostly stupid
Even if he wasn’t a fragile narcissist, having one point of failure would be bad.
yeah, I can understand.
like, if this were, say, 1942 and I wanted to take aspirin for my headache, I’d try to find another manufacturer than Bayer.
I still do, for that matter.
Breaking news: Starlink to be renamed to X.
As long as it’s just elons funded tech and not elons control tech
I am also concerned. About that.
They’re right to. He might start cutting service off to those who express the rights over their own body.
But that’s totally legal so you’re cool with it.
