In any healthy democracy, this would have been seen as a scandal exposing signs of corruption and would have likely resulted in the dissolution of the government and early election.
But the US is not a healthy democracy.
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Not to worry, "some cited security concerns." We're all set
Besides the security concerns, I want to know what they’re using it for, and how much bullshit they’re hiding by avoiding the official network.
It’s certainly not a speed and convenience thing.
The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.
Given it's unrepresentative voting system I think how much is enough to be a democracy. T hot take for people that see democracy. Two parties to choose from is just one more than a clear dictatorship. If neither actually represents you then yeah it's not healthy .
Agreed, except for one point. It's in oligarchy. Our "dictator" was just selling cars on the White House lawn. Capitalism won to get to it's late stages, happy to let racist hatred and russian influence fester for continued capital self-interest
They literally installed spyware in the WH. National security is an utter joke with these traitors.
So they routed all traffic in the WH through his sattelites, yay. Do I understand correctly that being an internet provider (and as WH can be singled out) means he can now know what resources everyone there access and force many proxy\VPN options shut? So he can get at least basic understanding if someone access matrix servers or whatever to leak data critical of DOGE, to block things he doesn't like (e.g. live streaming broadcast for select journalists) or just to get one more reason to fire everyone?
Musk is literally a James Bond villain. Literally. Like LITERALLY a Bond villain.
Edit: minus the genius and charisma
Anyone see the Johnny English with the American billionaire cyber-terrorist Jason Volta as the main antagonist?
That's how I see news coming from Washington developing on a daily basis.
We need you Rowan Atkinson.
It would be a shame if some foreign actor could monitor Starlink internal networks.
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.
I wholeheartedly agree.
However, it's hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren't all doing the same thing.
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.
I'm gonna teach you a lesson on improv: "yes, and".
Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?
Don't support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.
Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.
they're already in, guaranteed
Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.
Salt Typhoon is still ongoing, as well.
The existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was “overtaxed” so they just threw up satellite instead of , I don’t know, improving the Wi-Fi infrastructure? There’s perfectly fine WiFi at sprawling work and college campuses, and stadiums that seat tens of thousands of people. What a joke.
Network infrastructure is a science and we don't need no damn science in this country!
FFS, can we deal with these fucking traitors already?!?
Well it looks like more people need to be screwed over, I guess maybe after it affects enough "Me's" it'll probably stay the same. The amount of damage that will be done before the American people stand up will be immense.
I honestly cannot believe that the average American is in agreement with this and that they think holding signs up will do anything. Sorry but they say violence is never the right course of action, but I think in this case you might need to see if that well regulated militia is ready to defend your freedom.
And shame on the Democratic party for just rolling over.
The only security this White House cares about is its own power and hiding (for the time being) its complete disregard for anything else.
President Musk making it feel more like home.
Add 13 children of ambiguous parentage he can ignore, and snug as a bug!
"some areas of the property could not get cell service"
Like the bunkers? Like hell did the white house not have cell service.
I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?
https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/
I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply "forgot" to tell the incoming Trump administration....
probably more likely they fired the original IT team and replaced them with Muskite interns
Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it's probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.
it's necessary so the Saudis can livestream all the blowjobs and asslickling happening in the oval office.