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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Original source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How did they know what device to block if they don't know what's being sent/recieved?

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you provision a range of IP addresses to use specifically for the Ukrainian government, you can just cut access to all of them at once. Claiming an "outage" of 15-30 minutes would be pretty easy to do.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have no doubt that starlink can geolocate a client device by triangulation or trilateration.
The article states they essentially geo-fenced the area. So when client devices entered that area, their traffic was dropped.

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I could believe that too

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

by looking where it is