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White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 117 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

If you live in the DC area, absolutely do NOT sign up for this service.

100% chance that the government, as well as musks companies would be monitoring you directly 24/7.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I recently bought a van and am planning on road tripping while working. I had assumed that I would get starlink so I could work pretty much anywhere.

That is dead and I guess I'll have to make sure I'm within range of a cell tower on working days.

[–] arf@lemmy.today 34 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I wholeheartedly agree.

However, it's hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren't all doing the same thing.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 24 points 13 hours ago

The way I see stuff like this is that you don't have to hand over your information on a silver platter directly to the agents.

Like when a trainload of east germans was allowed to migrate to the west through a separate country, they just had to hand their passports to the Stasi before being let go.

When the Stasi agents came to the train to collect the passports the east germans just threw them on the floor instead of handing them over, that is kinda how this should be viewed.

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna teach you a lesson on improv: "yes, and".

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

... we should further have a system with carrier pidgeons carrying USB Flash disks for ultra slow but highly private Internet access.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Didn’t they used to do this in Cuba, to distribute digital media without having good internet access?

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

That's called a sneakernet. Although, if you're talking actual pigeons, you may be interested in RFC1149.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.

[–] brossman@infosec.pub 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

they're already in, guaranteed

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Salt Typhoon is still ongoing, as well.

[–] Fuhgeddaboutit@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

They disbanded the board looking into that on literally day 1.

In its first full day, the Trump administration axed all advisory committee members within the Department of Homeland Security, including the people that make up the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB). The CSRB was actively working on investigating Salt Typhoon, the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group responsible for breaches of at least nine telecommunications networks in the past several months.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 26 points 12 hours ago

Don't support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.