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I mean, it's an ISP. Any ISP you use can track you. Your cell provider can track you globally if you use international roaming. This is not novel. > So if you
by modeless 4y ago
I mean, it's an ISP. Any ISP you use can track you. Your cell provider can track you globally if you use international roaming. This is not novel.
> So if you have a device that uses starlink, there is not a single place on the globe where you cannot be tracked actively via starlink.
This makes it sound like Starlink is going to be built into your phone. Starlink is a satellite dish, it's the size of a medium pizza and consumes 60+ watts continuously in operation. It's not like you're going to accidentally leave it in your pocket or something.
- walrus01 4y agoWait until this guy learns that all iridium handsets also report their position when used. For the last 22 years.
- samstave 4y agoI know all this JEASUS. Iridium was out of the price range of the averwage bear. With family in Alaska, we've them for a LONG time in my family. My point is that as SkyNet eveolves - its going to provide defacto global coverage for even the poorest regions. Even Musk himself said that large swaths of africa will see early value. This IMPLIES that they are intending to poc-mark the globe with enough cells... Moonshot idea.
- modeless 4y agoThey're not going to "pockmark" the globe. Starlink V2 will have inter-satellite laser links so local ground stations are no longer required. It's an impressive engineering achievement and a huge improvement to the system with great practical benefits. Providing internet service to as many people as possible and without geographic limitations is hardly a nefarious plot.
- samstave 4y agoI agree and disagree. The plot is not nefarious. They way it will be abused by every government on the planet is.