Scientists at the University of Texas have discovered a vulnerability in Starlink, which the Russians can take advantage of, depriving the APU of the only connection. It turned out that Starlink signals could be redesigned to work like GPS and faked.

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The vulnerability is "blow up a part of the infrastructure". This took a "scientist" to figure out? We have been doing this for centuries.

So is this bad grammar, bad spelling, copy/paste, no shit Sherlock article is what passes for journalism these days?

Oh, yeah. The signal from the sats can be used to target them, just like every other satellite that transmits. The attack mentioned is a broad non targeted attack as well and has nothing to do with the "vulnerability".

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Charter Spectrum is better anyway.

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These "Scientists" just didn't happen to be FBI or CIA members did they? They are sticking it to Musk because he's messing with their baby Twitter.

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Well, if you're a defense contractor you have to tell your secrets to the government. But if you're the government you don't have to tell your secrets to a defense contractor. This asymmetry means the government can operate substandard systems indefinitely, and only be found out during war by the enemy. Musk, otoh, needs to develop an actual secure system and that's much harder. It needs to be open source style crypto secure since you're sharing so much operating info. Can it be done? Will secretive nations win the century, or will those who work somewhat adversarialy (not too much though) with private industry to develop truly secure systems come out on top?

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