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If all White House communications go through Starlink, Musk has access to all of it, to use as he sees fit. Blackmail, enriching himself, selling to the highest bidder. Great move for him financially.
I mean I’m hoping all communication is over SSL/TLS so he would likely only have DNS information.
Not to say this isn’t absolutely horrible and unnecessary, but it isn’t likely as bad as it could be. (Unless Starlink does some man-in-the-middle attacks, and/or has full control of the White House systems to install Starlink certificates, which is a possibility.)
Could still do man in the middle attacks by fucking with the Certs technically
Assuming the idiots install the wrong root certs or click past warnings
May be that official comms are MITMed by the three letters, as they should be, and they need a secure channel to commit treason on.
, as they should be, and they need a secure channel to commit treason on.
This is the $64,000 answer. It gives them a private, unmonitored channel to contact their handlers.
It also gives their handlers a private channel to touch their network.
Wonder if there are any zerodays in starlinks config…
How the fuck does one of the biggest governments in the world with access to a top tier it department think the upgrade is starlink and not another fibre cable or more access points. Whatever the problem starlink for a city building is not the solution.
Because there is a horse loose in the hospital.
This happened before, and we thought it was such a fun time that we invited the horse back to the hospital. The horse is loose in the hospital again, and we are here for it. That’s what they’re telling us.
Help please let me out of the hospital
Do you really think the White House does not currently have a fiber connection?
The most likely scenario: this is all just a show.
They’ll install a bunch of antennas and of course pay Dear Leader’s favorite little drug addict indecent amounts of money, but in the background nothing will change and they’ll use the existing, sane infrastructure.
Maybe they want a connection that government regulators or security can’t monitor
Yeah that’s another thought I had…a line that isn’t documented like all the other white house lines
It really seems like a security failure waiting to happen
Musk is in financial trouble so another government contract would help him a lot. Krasnov is feeds his loyal lackeys. Witness the outrageous White House Tesla car sales stunt.
I don’t believe nothing will change. I do believe Musk will capture communications and use it to monitor people he believes are his biggest enemies, then use it to best-case blackmail them, worst-case have them arrested in trumped-up (no pun intended) charges.
Random unknown people are being kidnapped, tortured, and sold internationally as slaves by the government. These are the cases we know about because they are getting to the media. How many are not getting through the Right-supporting media? Do we really think actual opponents aren’t just waiting targets?
Because Musk has mad conflicts of interest
A laundry list
“Are you suggesting I don’t understand Wi-Fi?”, US Press secretary… Probably
Yes, yes I am. Can you tell me which security standard you are using? WEP or WPA? (If they answer WPA) And which type?
Don’t mock them. Snowflakes will remove WPA just because they can’t explain it hence it’s bad and you’ve got nothing to hide if you’re not guilty. So no more wireless protection and police are allowed to connect and check your home networks without a warrant.
Ominous voice: “She doesn’t.”
It’s not ominous; that’s just the narrator. It’s their job to sound serious. Simply professional courtesy, you see.
I question if this fulfills security requirements.
Well probably the other way around. To protect DOGE from oversight
I don’t. I’m sure it doesn’t.
Hmmm, monitoring employees and funneling info, huh?
It’s in series for rubes.
Because unlike fiber, which you can install and reasonably expect to work with minimal maintenance or other costs for years, Starlink has a guaranteed revenue stream by way of planned obsolescence. We will be constantly launching satellites to keep up replacement of the ones that are deorbitted, and that cost will naturally be passed on to the taxpayer.
Not that fiber installs aren’t also a grift. After all, how many times has the American taxpayer paid for rural broadband?
Starlink is the purest definition of “space junk.”
