More like farther away. Put a spy satellite in a high orbit like traditional satellite internet and it'll be able to see half of Starlink simultaneously with e

More like farther away. Put a spy satellite in a high orbit like traditional satellite internet and it'll be able to see half of Starlink simultaneously with essentially no distortion. If they were strongly encrypted there may be no reason for a nation state to observe the intersatellite links, but I wouldn't expect this at least for the near future since Elon's focus will probably be to cut corners to get the absolute best performance possible.