halcyoncmdr

Amazing what happens with adequate funding. How long until Republicans open some sort of bullshit Congressional investigation that won't find anything but waste time and money, and as usual try to reduce funding by obviously punitive levels?

Surprisingly fast for a government organization to react to something new.

Oh I'm sure that's the case for nearly all large social media and network systems based on the US. I'm also willing to bet that for some of these companies, almost no one even knows it's there, either because a 3 letter agency put it there themselves without being noticed, or an employee implemented it for them without corporate approval.

The US is worried about other countries doing this because we 100% are doing it ourselves. From a national security perspective, it's basically common sense. Ensure you have access to everything, even if you don't use it now, you might in the future and it will save time.

A wiretap is different than having something like backdoor access at will for military use.

The problem is that not all of those terminals are being purchased by Ukraine, or supplied through official channels. There are tons of equipment being donated from third parties not directly affiliated, including Starlink terminals.

That's great if the Ukraine military were the only users in the region, but they aren't. Regular Starlink service is available in the country, outside military use. Even though the Ukraine military is using it, Starlink is not designed to be a military network. It is a civilian network that just happens to be available and extremely useful in this case, even with the Russian attempts to interfere with signals in the region.

Yeah, but it's not a government satellite system, it's an independent Internet provider. It is always possible that the US government/military has access on the back end, but that's not guaranteed. And since Ukraine is using Starlink, they can't exactly just disable all access in the region.

Kind of makes sense for Russia to try and use Starlink at least a bit to test the waters and see what sort of Intel the US has access to directly through it.

They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can't really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.

There are always exceptions. Unlike most politicians who start their career by networking in college to accumulate potential donors later, Sanders was on the frontline of the civil rights fight.

If they haven't been negotiating already at this point, their intention is to force the union into a strike. For whatever reason these companies/organizations always seem to think that forcing a union to strike works in their favor somehow, despite it always costing millions of dollars and an agreement being made anyway.

Not disagreeing, just pointing out it's not a traditional copyright claim like so many others we see.

Except this isn't a copyright case. They're claiming patent infringement.

If a Spear Phish works that well with individuals outside the official group in question, it should be able to be entered into evidence as proof of expected collaboration/collusion between the parties.