Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global

[wildylion]

Learn from the Ukrainians: to avoid jamming, the Dishy can be buried in a narrow trench so that only the sky is visible and it's not radiating outwards.

[kobalsky]

why don't they jam the satellites themselves?

[gnabgib]

Related:

Iran shuts down Starlink internet for first time (191 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575224

Iran is likely jamming Starlink (135 points, yesterday, 273 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573384

[Agreed3750]

Thanks for including these! I feel like by the end of the month these related comments will span 10 different posts

[wildylion]

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[hulitu]

> Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users

Does Starlink has a licence to operate in Iran ? (Is the Starlink transmitter homologated in Iran).

Sending RF signals without authorization will put you in trouble with law enforcement in most of the world, US included.

[boelboel]

But america are the goodies, they should be able to meddle, spy ... in other countries. Tiktok is certainly a national security issue though, can't have those chinamen spying on americans.

[sysguest]

hmm maybe this can be easily solved?

1. make a starlink+wireless mesh-network (eg. using BLE) that can handle multiple connects/disconnects seamlessly

2. mount those starlinks on cars/trucks/motorcycles/etc. hide those on ditches, buildings, etc.

Elon should work on that "starlink <-> wireless mesh-network" part (eg. app or device)

[bigfatkitten]

Terminals are easy to find.

Every single commercial mobile satellite system, other than VSAT needs to tell the network where it is in order to function. None of them are designed for low probability of interception/detection.

[Ginden]

> easily solved

Asynchronous (you don't know when and where you will get Internet/local network connectivity) mesh (there is no gov infrastructure to be trusted) networking in presence of malicious (gov operated) and unreliable (destroyed by gov) nodes is probably among hardest problems known to computer science.

[dzhiurgis]

Or Starlink enables direct to cell 5G in Iran.

[lm28469]

> Elon should work

Elon? You mean the team behind starlink? The cult of personality around this nerd is amazing

[Agreed3750]

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