They do not. At best, they have the metadata which would let them ID the location of anyone using it, but that is a whole different thing to view the traffic.

The ability to communicate over vast distances is WAY too big of a boon to give to russia... Encryption and ciphers can be added ontop of the connection. Ever heard of a VPN...?

Russia cannot be given StarLink.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you think Russia doesn't have the internet or something? Do Russians not have cell-phones? What do you think Starlink actually is?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Do you? You seem to fail to realize what a data link is and that different data can be stuffed in to the generic parts, you fucking numpty.

Do you think StarLink cannot send generic data? Do you think it inspects everything it sends to make sure it's not encrypted? Or does it just route and send the data. You have no fucking clue what you're even trying to retort.

[–] dRLY@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I highly doubt the US intelligence agencies aren't tapping StarLink. We already know for a fact that they were/are tapping Google and other carriers (if they didn't already have actual backdoors made for them by the companies). We also know that the intelligence agencies also like to either flip employees or simply have their own people get jobs there and get access. Being honest, for all the bans on using Chinese equipment/devices for fear of spying (even when other governments were already analyzing and finding nothing). I don't see why any other nation shouldn't be doing the same for US stuff on their infrastructure/networks.

We are historically not very trustworthy, and have been basically one of the top nations for getting into shit that wasn't even made by us (along with Israel) like the Stuxnet attack. We accuse other nations of shit while damn sure doing it ourselves, like a cheater that then constantly accuses the other partner of cheating.

Obviously any nation trying to use something like StarLink would be foolish to not use any and all methods for encrypting all traffic.

[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

They can tap all they want. His post is saying that due to encryption it doesn't matter.

I just hope they feed the gps coords of Russians using it to Ukraine.