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.
Enjoy the high latency.
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.
I wholeheartedly agree.
However, it’s hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren’t all doing the same thing.
I’m gonna teach you a lesson on improv: “yes, and”.
… we should further have a system with carrier pidgeons carrying USB Flash disks for ultra slow but highly private Internet access.
That’s called a sneakernet. Although, if you’re talking actual pigeons, you may be interested in RFC1149.
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.
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.
Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.
they’re already in, guaranteed
Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.
Salt Typhoon is still ongoing, as well.
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.
Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?
Don’t support fascists. Even if you have a VPN.
President Musk making it feel more like home.
Add 13 children of ambiguous parentage he can ignore, and snug as a bug!So they routed all traffic in the WH through his sattelites, yay. Do I understand correctly that being an internet provider (and as WH can be singled out) means he can now know what resources everyone there access and force many proxy\VPN options shut? So he can get at least basic understanding if someone access matrix servers or whatever to leak data critical of DOGE, to block things he doesn’t like (e.g. live streaming broadcast for select journalists) or just to get one more reason to fire everyone?
Ah yes, because what the white house needs is an inferior ISP to plug the gaps that could easily be filled by proper wireless access point configuration and distribution.
This is definitely not going to come back to haunt us later.
depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn’t likely to make that any better.
this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.
Who’s hand is on the power switch?
They literally installed spyware in the WH. National security is an utter joke with these traitors.
This country was destroyed under Reagan. We needed a national security strategy against the capitalists back then and invited them in.
This is just the fire sale, the vultures picking the well rotted corpse clean. Reagan and Welch destroyed this place, don’t give Trump that much credit. He’s just an opportunist who saw profit in chaos.
Are you a white house staffer carrying a heavy stack of top secret documents? Do you desperately need both hands to vape or to text roger stone a progress report? Try DOCDASH!
Just request a docdasher in app and a helpful person like Yvegeny, Dmitri or Boris will show up to the white house on a motorcycle, take your documents from you, not copy and transmit them, and just keep them very safe, like tippy top safe.
Somebody is going to have to explain to me how starlink is going to boost WiFi availability if it is routed from offsite using their current fibre network.
Yeah, this doesn’t make sense to me. Starlink needs a dish that has to be outside without trees covering it, so it isn’t like they can place new routers around the building that receive Starlink and have wifi capability. They will still have to run a cable from the dish(es?) to new wireless routers. How is that ANY different from just running new wireless routers from their existing fiber?
It’s literally not any different. Starlink is just a less-reliable broadband internet connection, it has nothing to do with WiFi
“some areas of the property could not get cell service”
Like the bunkers? Like hell did the white house not have cell service.
I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?
https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/
I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply “forgot” to tell the incoming Trump administration…
probably more likely they fired the original IT team and replaced them with Muskite interns
Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.
Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it’s probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.
sure “donated” until the next president, whenever that happens…
I am all for making the White House less secure at this point.
Are they then routing all starlink traffic to Russia?
FFS, can we deal with these fucking traitors already?!?
Well it looks like more people need to be screwed over, I guess maybe after it affects enough “Me’s” it’ll probably stay the same. The amount of damage that will be done before the American people stand up will be immense.
I honestly cannot believe that the average American is in agreement with this and that they think holding signs up will do anything. Sorry but they say violence is never the right course of action, but I think in this case you might need to see if that well regulated militia is ready to defend your freedom.
And shame on the Democratic party for just rolling over.
it’s necessary so the Saudis can livestream all the blowjobs and asslickling happening in the oval office.
