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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Turn them all off except the ones explicitly tied to Ukraine military and government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Across the whole wide world? So only Ukraine's military and gov't can use them? (And maybe a few related exceptions, e.g. for US gov't and military.)

That would do the trick, I think (except for the rare case of the Russians capturing a terminal from a Ukraine unit and then using it before Ukraine can notify Starlink to deactivate it).

Probably a major money losing proposition for Starlink, but on the other hand, does Musk really need any more money?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

In the conflict area you could ban all terminals that are not tied to Ukraine. Not worldwide. As satellites enter conflict area they will receive traffic from new terminals, check are these terminals registered to the good guys and turn off all others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're forging the GPS to look like it's in the EU. Do we turn off all the EU terminals too?

I'm a little surprised they can't identify spoofing by comparing the incoming signal to the proposed location. They already have antennas that can be steered using the phased array.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You answered your owm question right there.

No we dont shut off the eu, we shut off any terminals picked up by sattelites over ukraine and Russia. They have multiple satellites and could discern position from which satellites see them when.