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Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say
(www.defenseone.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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It's not though. The data goes both ways. As long as the device id was not altered, its history of movement can be tracked down, provided such a data is being recorded.
Also, there may be caveats about how accounts are getting created and activated. Those devices bought by Russia may come with pre-activated accounts that can be tracked by origin.
Finally, billing. Unless Russia is not relying on stolen Ukrainian credit cards it should be easy to identify that a group of devices/accounts is being paid for by entities that are neither Russian nor Ukrainian.
Based on all of that, they could filter groups of devices by location, confirm it with Ukrainian forces and ban maliciously used ones.
Yeah. Russia crosses many lines but stealing credit cards is NOT one of them /s
Edit: Null User was right. But just the be sure I'll edit in the /s
What do you mean? They steal basically everything they can when destroying cities and killing people. Should I mention it's a crime to make it more obvious?
Pretty sure the person you're responding to didn't think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.
I don't get such a sarcasm. It doesn't target any specific point in my arguments, they are about how Starlink could locate the illegal use of devices, not about how justified or not Russian crimes are.
Are you being intellectually dishonest or are you actually missing the point?
I seriously can't tell.
For reference, Russian hackers 'steal everything' and have agents in every country. Using a stolen UA credit card to purchase access to spacex sattelites and then insuring the direct operator(s) stay in UA as an intel relay is not difficult.
The key point is right here. Staying in UA is not the same as using Starlink modules on the front lines. The UA territory is devided and it's visible on Starlink's availability map.