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Hah a feature like this would make iPhone 13 persona non grata for many governments around the world.
by drevil-v2 5y ago
Hah a feature like this would make iPhone 13 persona non grata for many governments around the world.
- lxgr 5y agoThat feature is very likely going to be geofenced.
- ISL 5y agoThat only works until the first jailbreak.
- lxgr 5y agoThe satellite network knows where you are too and can just choose to not service you if you are in a banned area.
- ugjka 5y agoWhat kind of precision we talk about here and why would they give a damn? It would suck for sailors to get their satcom banned because they appear to be close to the Indian waters but not intending to enter
- lxgr 5y agoThe precision is probably on the order of the Iridium spot beam size, which as far as I know is 300 km. As to why: Indian customs officers confiscating all iPhones is probably bad for business (in the long term).
- CodesInChaos 5y agoIsn't the baseband a separate chip which would have to be cracked separately? A phone already needs to enforce many RF restrictions, one more doesn't sound like a big deal.
- ugjka 5y agoClueless travellers going to places like India and getting their Iphones confiscated sounds interesting Edit: to clarify India banned satcom devices
- samstave 5y agoWhy?
- op00to 5y agoIndia has (had?) a monopoly on telecommunications. My company couldn’t send voip phones to our Indian employees like we do for employees everywhere else.
- ugjka 5y agoFollowing the Mumbai terror attacks in 2011, the Directorate General of Shipping (DGS)in India banned the use of “Thuraya, Iridium and other such satellite phones” in Indian waters.
- sudosysgen 5y agoSatcom is banned in India : https://apollosat.com/intel/satellite-phone-ban-warning-to-visitors-to-india/ https://apollosat.com/intel/satellite-phone-ban-warning-to-v...
- webmobdev 5y agoAre you sure it is completely banned? I thought you just need permission (in the form of a "no objection certificate") from the Home Ministry in India before you can own and operate a satellite phone?
- ugjka 5y agoNo chance getting that on travel visa, but you're right
- cced 5y agoWhy would this type of feature invoke that type of response?
- chrisseaton 5y agoGovernments have no control over satellite signals.
- anchpop 5y agoThey can shoot down the satellites if they break the law though. That's why bypassing China's firewall isn't as easy as sneaking in a Starlink base station
- chrisseaton 5y ago> They can shoot down the satellites if they break the law though. I don't think they can tractably do that. If India started shooting down US satellites they'd be in for a whole world of problems.
- kube-system 5y agoNo, but they do have control over people and property.
- chrisseaton 5y agoThey have absolutely no way to detect what those people are doing with that property when it comes to satellites though - they can't detect that you're doing it, and they don't have much practical way to block it either.
- kube-system 5y agoAll competent governments on earth already regulate wireless communications, including satellite communications. Most have found it fairly effective to regulate trade and manufacture of such devices. At a minimum, it is effective enough that it is a response that would be expected to be elicited if a government found a device undesirable.
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