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I don't know what your experience is in this area, but how do you believe they regulate access to a satellite from another nation flying overhead if your people

I don't know what your experience is in this area, but how do you believe they regulate access to a satellite from another nation flying overhead if your people have the device to access it? You can just about jam GPS signals locally (within a few km if you pour the resources into it.) Nations are not able in practice to generally jam satellite signals. We know that nations are not able to do this in practice... because it's how people from those locations are calling out to us.

kube-system 5y ago
> how do you believe they regulate access to a satellite from another nation flying overhead if your people have the device to access it? You don’t. You prevent people from getting access to the device in the first place. There are no countries where people already have iPhone 13s. A country that doesn’t want them, could certainly ban their import. There ain’t too many people watching HBO on their satellite TVs in North Korea.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > You don’t. Exactly. > There are no countries where people already have iPhone 13s. They have Iridium, Garmin, etc. Any number of satellite devices. > A country that doesn’t want them, could certainly ban their import. I think you're super-naive if you think import bans on these devices work in practice, sorry. They're easily concealable.
  - kube-system 5y ago
    The question originally posed above, that you responded to, was about a government response to the iPhone 13 specifically.