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Hey guys, I just heard water is wet. There’s news all over. Why are we just picking on a musk owned company? Obviously Musk cares so little about his test subjects he also tallies what shows they watch and websites they visit, like Facebook. Every company under the sun is tapping your conversations, looking at your phone, listening to your music. Nothing you do is private, Starlink or otherwise.
Get VPN and even then its not so cut and dry.
Is this why they want to use Starlink for mobile phone service and sell the infrastructure to telecoms?
Sell the service cheaply to telcos, hope they invest less in ground infrastructure and couple of decades later you can spy on every citizen.
Obviously most of people in comments didn’t read the article, so here is TLDR:
A shady Israeli company was found to be spreading scary zero-click spyware through targeted ads. Despite being banned from Google ad platform, they seem to simply change business entity from time to time and keep doing what they do. One of such attacks was targeted to people using StarLink, including in countries that restrict StarLink use. Attacks through targeted ads, not StarLink itself. Targeted ads are bad, StarLink users are target audience.
This is what happens when you societally refuse to “pierce the corporate veil”. The criminals actually performing the illegal activity wear articles of incorporation like a costume or disguise, then when they get busted, they throw that costume in a dumpster and get a new one.
I think we need Fred, Daphne, and Velma to find out who this criminal really is.
Well it is an Israli company. The call could be coming from inside the house.
JINKIES, a clue!
Despite being banned from Google ad platform
The most shocking news to me is that google banned something evil or malicious from their ad platform
It was the wrong kind of evil that doesn’t make them any money and hurts sales.
We should find the guy that made this and lock him up!
I’m not arguing against your username, but this article is about an Israeli malware campaign using ad bids to specifically target itself towards Starlink users. There’s nothing about Starlink itself being complicit.
I’d think if Starlink wanted to surveil their users (they probably do) they could find a more direct route than this (they probably have).
For one mistake? Seems like that would be appropriate if he had a track record of bad behavior perhaps.
He’s got a bright future ahead of him, shouldn’t punish him for a few seconds of action
All ad networks are malware distribution networks.
Adblock is the new antivirus.
I heard adblock was sold to advertising interests, and some of the creators that were against selling it made the content blocker ublockorigin, which works better than adblock ever did. Undetectable by websites too unlike adblockers.
Adblock the concept, not Adblock the named software browser extension.
People should currently be using ublockorigin as you say.
Is that why a lot of people still don’t use it?
We need to nationalize Space X and Starlink, and imprison Musk.
Alternatively, we could reinstate NASA’s funding, and come up with an actually sane way to get Internet service to remote areas that doesn’t involve what is essentially “space littering”. Putting thousands of satellites into space for something that can be done way more practically on the ground makes every future thing you do in space harder, and severely hampers land-based astronomy. They have to track every nut and bolt in orbit for as long as they stay there, or one of those things will blow something to smithereens, even if it is small, like a literal nut or bolt.
We’re letting private entities potentially trap our children here on Earth by failing to regulate and enforce what can be up there. If you envision a future with space colonies and exploration, SpaceX and Starlink are not how you get there. I’m sure its doing a great job letting yokels in the swamp watch foxnews.com though, so there’s that.
We’ve tried to do it on the ground for decades to little success. We give them money, and they say, oh so sorry we spent it all and did 0.001% of the requirements.
SpaceX and these other LEO constellations can do it in a few years, at their own risk.
Also, these constellations serve areas that fiber will never serve. 5g towers maybe in many but not all, but never fiber. They also serve areas like the ocean, and air, some of which will never be served by 5g.
edit: Also there’s no risk of trapping us on earth with something like Starlink. It’s too low and will resolve any mass destruction in a handful of short years. The risk comes with something like Eutelsat One Webs constellation at 1200km that will last millennia in a Kessler Syndome type doomsday scenario.
We keep giving them the money before they do it and then don’t do anything completely withing our power to hold them accountable when they don’t? Sounds like regulatory capture to me.
I’m talking about before then. Describing the failures of government systems at this point in history seems a bit like diagnosing why a car that’s at the bottom of a lake won’t start. We have to back up and look at the whole scenario to see why not to blame the engine or even pop the hood.
You can see a real life major success case in my previous example. It was not at all profitable to run telephone service to rural communities below a certain size at all, but it was mandated and they did it. We did subsidize its deployment, but they also did do it.
These systems can and do work, but other systems that they require have failed. It may not be practical or even possible to make every such system that society needs be immune to this sort of tampering, so until that is figured out, if ever, we must protect things we need that are susceptible to it, and put a stop to the bad behavior, not just what it caused.
wasnt it obvious form the start? and since 2022, im not surprised its heavily rolled in RURAL area and red states.
The whole point of Starlink was to bring broadband to rural areas… The places telephone and cable companies didn’t want to build modern infrastructure for.
At the beginning you couldn’t even sign up for Starlink near cities.didn’t want to
That’s what regulations are for. We let them have their regional monopolies, and they build out service everywhere, even the nonprofitable builds. Then we just stopped doing that when the bribes got big enough, and this problem came into being. All those shacks in the middle of nowhere have phone lines because of this regulation, which is totally still on the books, by the way.
You just can’t trust anyone with your data.
Kell soup reeze.
Put musk in prison
I’m glad this is coming to light, but… duh
People clapping for Internet on planes from Herr Tesla who led the massive data theft of social security and citizen records, and people would feign surprise?
As you said, duh
I doubt many people using internet on planes give any þought as to how. Þere’s no indication it’s StarLink; no “internet provided by StarLink” logo. Not on any plane I’ve flown in, anyway.
since 2022, when he slowed down ukraine startshield/link.
Ohh the irony, I just received an email invite to subscribe to Starlink after reading this post…wtf lol
Utterly unexpected
I’m shocked, shocked I say!!
You’ll never guess the country who made and distributed the spyware ads…
It’s China, right? I keep hearing about how China is the only country that ever spies ever. /s
Discover-Tech, an Israeli advertising firm previously linked to the delivery of zero-click spyware, is the top bidder for Starlink ad impressions in 105 countries, according to a new report from Reuters.
Who could have seen this plot twist coming. Absolutely blindsided, that’s me.
It’s probably technically true since in the US we leave our spying to the Corporations.
whoodathunkit
