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A new "white list" from SpaceX is shutting off Russia's illicit access to Starlink's satellite internet across the front line.

At shortly before 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time on Feb. 5, Elon Musk retweeted a new guide from Ukraine's Digital Transformation Ministry for registering a Starlink terminal within UkraSubsequently, a series of alarmed Russian social media posts indicate that Starlink terminals were disconnecting en masse along the front.

Three Ukrainian commanders, speaking to the Kyiv Independent on the condition of anonymity, reported intercepting messages from Russian forces complaining about Starlink terminals failing in large numbers.

Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, a longtime commentator on electronic warfare more recently appointed as advisor to Defense Minister Mykhaylo Fedorov, said the "enemy at the front doesn't have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe."

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

why would any country's military build infrastructure on services from the United States privately owned by a guy notorious for being reckless and crazy and flipping switches just for clout? makes no damn sense

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

What replacement services are available? The American service actually works. Making your own would cost an order of magnitude more (as your contractors mysteriously "lose" half the money and bill the defence ministry 10 million roubles for "pens") and a decade of your time.

Maybe they could hire Chinese firms to do it but I think China has a tendency to keep its military technology to itself.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

Well most militaries do that lol

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

A big part of russian strategy (both military and political) is turning the wests own tools against it. Its how they manage to have such an outsized degree of political reach despite having the economy of a middle european power.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Because Putin has been ransacking the country for decades and they relied on stolen tech and decades old military equipment to get by.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Of course one can just not have internet also....

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's because it didn't. Likely used it for r&r rather than critical infrastructure.

[–] malo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol, no. There was downed drone with starlink onboard.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ok, I have a rope to sell you.