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.
Yalls remember the security concerns when that sailor secretly installed a star link on a US warship?
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.
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.
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I recently bought a van and am planning on road tripping while working. I had assumed that I would get starlink so I could work pretty much anywhere.
That is dead and I guess I’ll have to make sure I’m within range of a cell tower on working days.
I wholeheartedly agree.
However, it’s hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren’t all doing the same thing.
Mark Klein showed us this was true years ago.
I’m gonna teach you a lesson on improv: “yes, and”.
… we should further have a system with carrier pidgeons carrying USB Flash disks for ultra slow but highly private Internet access.
Didn’t they used to do this in Cuba, to distribute digital media without having good internet access?
That’s called a sneakernet. Although, if you’re talking actual pigeons, you may be interested in RFC1149.
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.
Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?
Don’t support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.
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?
sure “donated” until the next president, whenever that happens…
President Musk making it feel more like home.
Add 13 children of ambiguous parentage he can ignore, and snug as a bug!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.
We’re only a couple of months into this administration. We’re super duper fucked.
Shoulda put a Trojan on that trojan.
Can you access starling directly with your 4G phone/router like this?
Security concerns? No need to eavesdrop on electronics when they have Tulsi to just tell them everything.
The only security this White House cares about is its own power and hiding (for the time being) its complete disregard for anything else.
They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.
Starlink has absolutely nothing to do with either of those things…
this was nothing that some Ethernet and some APs couldn’t fix. and as for the cellular issues, you’re literally the White House. Throw up a femtocell, you already have fiber for backhaul.
this is such fucking nonsense. Starlink is fixing precisely none of this.
I mean I think it’s safe to say these issues never existed in the first place. Nothing but more fables from the liar in Chief.
agree 100%, I just find what limited joy I can in pointing out that this is likely bullshit and at best a con. I also get a kick out of shitting on Musk for pretending to know what he’s talking about when it comes to tech :)
Amazing how the but her emails crowd is fine with all the private servers and now private internet access from Trump and co
I worked it some shitty old bunkers that no one cared about and they had wifi and cell service in every room. But the white house doesn’t That’s fucking hysterical
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“Sternlink”
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.
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.
Yes. That’s the joke. I’m unsure how the burning terminator dying with a thumbs up wasn’t clear enough that there is obviously more to this than just “security concerns”
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 an 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
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.
Why don’t you call the police? Serious question, not sure how it works in the US, but there should be some institution where you can report someone on suspicion of committing a crime. They would then need to investigate.
There is actually so much we and the courts/Congress can do. We’re just choosing not to do it, unfortunately.
Ah yes, because what the white house needs is an inferior ISP to plug the gaps that could easily be filled by proper wireless access point configuration and distribution.
This is definitely not going to come back to haunt us later.
depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn’t likely to make that any better.
this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.
