I don’t know, they said it’s something to do with Wi-Fi?
  • mriguy@lemmy.world
    371·
    13 hours ago

    If all White House communications go through Starlink, Musk has access to all of it, to use as he sees fit. Blackmail, enriching himself, selling to the highest bidder. Great move for him financially.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
      14·
      13 hours ago

      I mean I’m hoping all communication is over SSL/TLS so he would likely only have DNS information.

      Not to say this isn’t absolutely horrible and unnecessary, but it isn’t likely as bad as it could be. (Unless Starlink does some man-in-the-middle attacks, and/or has full control of the White House systems to install Starlink certificates, which is a possibility.)

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    May be that official comms are MITMed by the three letters, as they should be, and they need a secure channel to commit treason on.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    57·
    1 day ago

    How the fuck does one of the biggest governments in the world with access to a top tier it department think the upgrade is starlink and not another fibre cable or more access points. Whatever the problem starlink for a city building is not the solution.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Because there is a horse loose in the hospital.

      This happened before, and we thought it was such a fun time that we invited the horse back to the hospital. The horse is loose in the hospital again, and we are here for it. That’s what they’re telling us.

      Help please let me out of the hospital

    • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      29·
      1 day ago

      Do you really think the White House does not currently have a fiber connection?

      The most likely scenario: this is all just a show.

      They’ll install a bunch of antennas and of course pay Dear Leader’s favorite little drug addict indecent amounts of money, but in the background nothing will change and they’ll use the existing, sane infrastructure.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        7·
        18 hours ago

        Of course it has fibre but I was pointing out the fact that if there is an upgrade required the answer is always going to be another fibre line, more switches and more APs before lets get space internet that sucks in high capacity environments.

      • rayyy@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 day ago

        Musk is in financial trouble so another government contract would help him a lot. Krasnov is feeds his loyal lackeys. Witness the outrageous White House Tesla car sales stunt.

      • Akuchimoya@startrek.website
        5·
        1 day ago

        I don’t believe nothing will change. I do believe Musk will capture communications and use it to monitor people he believes are his biggest enemies, then use it to best-case blackmail them, worst-case have them arrested in trumped-up (no pun intended) charges.

        Random unknown people are being kidnapped, tortured, and sold internationally as slaves by the government. These are the cases we know about because they are getting to the media. How many are not getting through the Right-supporting media? Do we really think actual opponents aren’t just waiting targets?

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
    361·
    1 day ago

    Because unlike fiber, which you can install and reasonably expect to work with minimal maintenance or other costs for years, Starlink has a guaranteed revenue stream by way of planned obsolescence. We will be constantly launching satellites to keep up replacement of the ones that are deorbitted, and that cost will naturally be passed on to the taxpayer.

    Not that fiber installs aren’t also a grift. After all, how many times has the American taxpayer paid for rural broadband?

  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    Oh yes, please do “improve”… With the Starlink priority plans you’ll have amazing speeds such as 40-220 Mbps down/8-25 Mbps up 😂😂

    They’re gonna shit their pants with excitement when they experience these speeds^^

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      10·
      1 day ago

      Don’t forget the latency and QoS that’ll probably be done haphazardly limiting everyone to just a sliver of the total available bandwidth.

      • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        I mean it’s a great product. For anyone living in a place where Fiber, 5G, or even a classic ADSL connection isn’t available. If you use it in a well developed area that would offer you any of the above, you’re a moron

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 day ago

      They’ll be able to drive home and shit in the comfort of their own homes with those speeds. They’ll have dumped their load before the page loads.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Yes, yes I am. Can you tell me which security standard you are using? WEP or WPA? (If they answer WPA) And which type?

      • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Don’t mock them. Snowflakes will remove WPA just because they can’t explain it hence it’s bad and you’ve got nothing to hide if you’re not guilty. So no more wireless protection and police are allowed to connect and check your home networks without a warrant.

    • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
      521·
      1 day ago

      Eh, it’s decently low latency. Around 40ms or so. That doesn’t make it useful for them though. There’s absolutely no -legitimate- reason for it in the white house. As for illegitimate reasons, why could Musk possibly want a connection inside the white house that has no oversight other than his own…?

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        222·
        1 day ago

        60+Ms at a minimum is not low latency. What are you on about? I have 10ms from coast to coast on residential fiber.

        Government installs which were previously on fiber are being switched to this bullshit. Fiber international interconnect to Australia right now is 13ms from DC to Sydney. Big fucking difference.