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Starlink would be quite easy to track down if they didn't want people having internet.

The people capable of tracking starlink terminals (assuming they are camoflagued enough so they aren't visible from the street) are unlikely to be too concerned with an average person, they've got bigger fish to fry.

by "track down" you mean shut down or to know we are using it?

Is it this one https://www.starlink.com ?

I don’t know about the attitudes, or signal inteligence capabilities of the forces in question. By “track down” pretty much the worst case situation what has been rummored to have happened with Marie Colvin.

She was a journalist covering the conflict in Syria when she died. It is rummored that the local forces triangulated her location using her satelite signal and shelled the building she was in which led to her death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Colvin

o.m.g.

"Journalist Jean-Pierre Perrin and other sources reported that the building had been targeted by the Syrian Army, identified using satellite phone signals."

"Reporters working in Homs feared the Army had "locked on" to their satellite phone signals and targeted the buildings they were coming from" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/...

with starlink you need to place the dish (size of a large pizza) towards the clear sky…from an helicopter this is very much visible. I think this he refers to. Given they are focused on searching for these. Long Range WiFi can be much more stealth to setup.

If you are targeted like Marie was, and you're asking for advice on HN, you're screwed already.

:) :)

no, no. I am a sys-admin and developer: I just need to keep my job running while having to be there for awhile.

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