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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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The traffic going to and from these drones isn't encrypted?
It is, but if you control the endpoints then there is no traffic to be had if you block it.
How did they know what device to block if they don't know what's being sent/recieved?
If you provision a range of IP addresses to use specifically for the Ukrainian government, you can just cut access to all of them at once. Claiming an "outage" of 15-30 minutes would be pretty easy to do.
I have no doubt that starlink can geolocate a client device by triangulation or trilateration.
The article states they essentially geo-fenced the area. So when client devices entered that area, their traffic was dropped.
I could believe that too
by looking where it is
You shouldn't need to trust him to communicate securely using his equipment
I mean from a technical standpoint, not an ethical one