If true, this graph seems to show otherwise, UNLESS this was a mobile unit moving into the unserviced territory.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/09/08/elon-musk...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/09/10/exp-ukraine-russ...
If true, this graph seems to show otherwise, UNLESS this was a mobile unit moving into the unserviced territory.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/09/08/elon-musk...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/09/10/exp-ukraine-russ...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
> To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally. Another individual told me that Musk had made the same assertion in the weeks before he tweeted his pro-Russia peace plan, and had said that his consultations with the Kremlin were regular.
> On the phone, Musk said that he was looking at his laptop and could see “the entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. “This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’ ” the senior defense official told me. “And we were, like, ‘Oh, dear, this is not good.’ ”
Freedom of speech ... peace ... yeah, who does this guy think he is ?
So its ridiculous to claim Musk is some anti-Russian element.
SpaceX is literally the only defense company who would get shit on for not providing things for free.
And plus, he probably still has South African citizenship?
He's in charge of Starlink and it doesn't make any data privacy claims to prevent him from even intercepting data if he wanted to.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925
Note truth number 4:
> (4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network.
Most people have not ever wrestled with operating a network. To get outraged about the exploitation of user activity/metadata and violation of end user trust perpetrated by today's network operators, you have to have wrestled with having at least tried to operate or build out one yourself.
Only once you have (and it doesn't take many) multiple users completely dependent on you as a single point of failure or as a vector for intrusion into their intimate affairs, will you truly appreciate the burning white anger the more ethical of us feel at the behavior of the largest network operators.
In fact, policymakers and law enforcement have all but weaponized that fact. Usually couching any further abrogation or unraveling of end user expectation of privacy under the guise of "keeping you safe" or "protecting the children" (which a vast majority experience first hand), without at the same time pointing out that "oh, hey, this means we basically get to intrude on all activity you conduct over a network".
Which nowadays is "all activity you conduct with someone else that doesn't involve meeting face to face"
Which is a lot.
Think about that long and hard.
There is zero need for plebs to be defending a mentally ill billionaire on HN or anywhere else.
"We don’t knowingly sell your personal information, but we still have to tell you what we collect from you and how we use it."
https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1000-41799-67?r...
Location data is specifically covered and Musk was not using the location data for 'goods and services' but instead in violation of privacy rights was using this information for geopolitics instead:
"Location Data (not precise geolocation), which includes your general location in order to provide you with the appropriate goods and services."
>Ukrainian missiles strike Russian warships in Crimean naval base
>Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol, which Russia uses as a repair base for its Black Sea Fleet, with 10 cruise missiles and three unmanned boats.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/13/europe/crimea-missile-att...
I cannot comprehend how self-sabotaging this is. Ok, sure, starlink was going to have rural subscribers which is a lot of people but not as nearly a large market as urban telecom. And yeah, they'd have some customers in less developed countries that lack infrastructure. And sure, there's maritime shipping. But at the end of the day the real money maker, the one they could charge a premium to, was going to be the DoD. And he's pissing all over them.
Also I bet aircraft carriers at sea need a good data connection too.
More like he has tons of friends there what to do and what def not to do (i.e. be complicit in attack)