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I'd say it's more of problematic than great news for places with state controlled study. But it has potential.

Where it's Great news is places which already can use only satellite internet, but have very poor experience. Rural Australia for example. Having low local (or even global) latency would be amazing.

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I'm pretty sure NSA will want a backdoor in the system. If it can do what they say it can do, they are basically the new pipes of the Internet. It's too good for NSA and our current US govt to leave untouched.

Say hello to ultra-fine real-time triangulation of your position. Of course privacy protected with the same care and zeal that protects your Tesla.

It's not going to be better than GPS/GLONAS. If there is a specific location component in the ground stations, it will be known pretty soon. Otherwise, the location will be very weather dependent.

If you have a phone with you, you're likely providing a better location to Google/Apple right now.

Of course. But they will be another cell phone like actor, only global.

For plaintext communication, you should already assume someone's either listening, or will get recorded traffic in the future. Why do you think a specific backdoor in satellite traffic would change anything? The bandwidth there would also have physical constraints, more than a magic box at Telco, making full slurping harder.

25ms is pretty close to my broadband latency across Australia(Brisbane to Sydney).

1. Neither is rural. 2. LOL at Brisbane to Sydney being "across Australia" :-)

I'm sorry, cross state. I was attempting to point out exactly how shit the current internet speeds were, although I could've been clearer.

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