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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Wilshire@lemm.ee to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Original source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Elon owns the Network Operations Center for Starlink. I can only imagine the type of data/intelligence he has access to.

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[+] 30mag@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

You don't need to know what the message is about when you know where it comes from and where it's going. A lot of security breaches come from that king of knowledge.

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[–] Ew0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago

Aka metadata.

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[–] OldPain@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Indeed, and then they decrypt it if you're a Ukranian boat.

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[–] Fraeco@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago

It's not that easy as just checking a box that says "enable decryption". Not saying they can't decrypt traffic, but it's not trivial if you don't have the private keys.

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[–] Turun@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Only metadata, but that is enough. Who sends how much data from where to where.

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[+] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Turun@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago

They don't provide the encryption though. Star-Link just provides an Ethernet cable, the same way your modem/router/whatever at home does.

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