Comment by mlmonkey
4 hours ago
What will Stingrays do if a mobile device uses Starlink? There's no way the Feds are going to lose this ability to deploy Stingrays once Starlink Mobile comes around.
4 hours ago
What will Stingrays do if a mobile device uses Starlink? There's no way the Feds are going to lose this ability to deploy Stingrays once Starlink Mobile comes around.
Probably the feds will just ask Starlink for the triangulated coordinates of their person of interest.
Exactly, it's not like Elon has been shy about using his toys for this admin.
Or any admin? I cannot recall any reporting of his companies refusing a lawful request.
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Why wouldn't they do that in the case of other providers?
What if Starlink refuses?
Narrator: "They had already been doing it a decade by then."
Because they already have direct taps into the other cellular providers, also starlink will not say no lol. Elon is a puppet of this administration.
Stingrays don't care where the provider's towers are, they work by pretending to be their own, and (ideally for you if you are the person wielding one) causing your target's phone to connect to or through your antenna. The only way Starlink would help a target is if your phone rejects tower signals that are not mostly above you, or if Starlink Mobile would utilize something other than the 3GPP standards, both of which are unlikely unless they want to sell their own fully proprietary phones.
Current Starlink direct-to-mobile is proprietary. It's kind of the opposite: 5G NR NTN so far has required new chipsets which haven't found their way into phones yet, whereas Starlink's LTE has been deployed with firmware changes to existing phones.
Do you think that Musk wants to become the dominate global cell provider and does NOT plan to use that information collection capability to enable his friends and hurt his enemies?
Yes?