• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t that a massive security risk?

    Like, what if the U.S was using Roscosmos satellite links in drones? I’d certainly be raising an eyebrow.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s not a government satellite system, it’s an independent Internet provider. It is always possible that the US government/military has access on the back end, but that’s not guaranteed. And since Ukraine is using Starlink, they can’t exactly just disable all access in the region.

      Kind of makes sense for Russia to try and use Starlink at least a bit to test the waters and see what sort of Intel the US has access to directly through it.