1984: Starlink First Partner: Local Cops and State Military

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On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:10:45 +1000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:


> There are certain tasks before us in the realm of "modern communication", including #OpenHW, #OpenFabs, seamless peer to peer mesh networks (ethernet between neighbours, mobile phone wifis etc), 

	yes, and then there would be little reason to route traffic through networks controlled by the enemy (networks like bell/musko 'starlink')


>and given a new properly distributed (etc) overlay net, then there is no reason that some links cannot go via Musk's Starlink satellites - just another rando hop in the mesh, with its own characteristics (bandwidth, cost, latency, etc).

	why would you give your enemy access to your traffic even if 'encrypted'? 
 
	anyway, as you say, there are a few things that need to be done and NSA-internet-satellite doesn't help with any of them.


> There is no -inherent- reason to disclude any particular link type (although yes, satellite-accessing nodes may be well require highly proprietary equipment 

	yeah see above.