Elon Musk's Starlink Terminals Are Falling into the Wrong Hands
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The satellites should know where they are and where their beams are pointing with sufficiently high fidelity to turn them off whenever overflying areas in which they're not licensed to operate, or am I missing something?
This is not an 1980s satellite service with global or regional beams that are too course to provide very coarse-grained, continent-sized service boundaries. As far as I know, the Starlink spot beam size is on the order of a few kilometers in diameter, so anything other than border regions should be very easy to control access to.
In fact, not doing so seems to violate the law of most if not all countries covered without a license.
If anyone thinks the NSA can't monitor Starlink better than Elon can, I suggest rethinking the implications of the stuff that Snowden released.
Strategically speaking; wouldn't it be better for the USA to allow and monitor communications from everyone in these areas that has something the need to say? Let everybody's troops use Strava.
> wouldn't it be better for the USA to allow and monitor communications from everyone in these areas that has something the need to say?
Encryption exists, and it would be pretty embarrassing to figure out that what SIGINT thought were enemy troops' strava workout challenges was really guidance for their cruise missiles and attack drones.
These things are a requirement for operation