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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships
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Elon owns the Network Operations Center for Starlink. I can only imagine the type of data/intelligence he has access to.
Only metadata, but that is enough. Who sends how much data from where to where.
They don't provide the encryption though. Star-Link just provides an Ethernet cable, the same way your modem/router/whatever at home does.
You don't need to know what the message is about when you know where it comes from and where it's going. A lot of security breaches come from that king of knowledge.
Aka metadata.
Indeed, and then they decrypt it if you're a Ukranian boat.
It's not that easy as just checking a box that says "enable decryption". Not saying they can't decrypt traffic, but it's not trivial if you don't have the private keys.