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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. (economictimes.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by Tea to c/[email protected]
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White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

If you live in the DC area, absolutely do NOT sign up for this service.

100% chance that the government, as well as musks companies would be monitoring you directly 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I wholeheartedly agree.

However, it's hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren't all doing the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago

The way I see stuff like this is that you don't have to hand over your information on a silver platter directly to the agents.

Like when a trainload of east germans was allowed to migrate to the west through a separate country, they just had to hand their passports to the Stasi before being let go.

When the Stasi agents came to the train to collect the passports the east germans just threw them on the floor instead of handing them over, that is kinda how this should be viewed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna teach you a lesson on improv: "yes, and".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

... we should further have a system with carrier pidgeons carrying USB Flash disks for ultra slow but highly private Internet access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Didn’t they used to do this in Cuba, to distribute digital media without having good internet access?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

That's called a sneakernet. Although, if you're talking actual pigeons, you may be interested in RFC1149.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

they're already in, guaranteed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Salt Typhoon is still ongoing, as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

Don't support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.