Do you write a comment like that every time someone roots a cable modem too? That seems a little over the top. This is an exploit of the base station device.

Do you write a comment like that every time someone roots a cable modem too? That seems a little over the top. This is an exploit of the base station device. It seems that it might be used to grant access for which the owner hadn't paid, but that's also something that can be trivially patched around at the routing level ("sure, it's a valid base station, but if it's not on the list of paying customers it doesn't get packets"). It doesn't seem like there's a broader exploit against the network at all, beyond allowing the thing to attempt a DoS attack (something that is also always possible with jamming hardware, but very difficult in practice given the number of satellits).