White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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    If you live in the DC area, absolutely do NOT sign up for this service.

    100% chance that the government, as well as musks companies would be monitoring you directly 24/7.

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      I recently bought a van and am planning on road tripping while working. I had assumed that I would get starlink so I could work pretty much anywhere.

      That is dead and I guess I’ll have to make sure I’m within range of a cell tower on working days.

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      I wholeheartedly agree.

      However, it’s hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren’t all doing the same thing.

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        The way I see stuff like this is that you don’t have to hand over your information on a silver platter directly to the agents.

        Like when a trainload of east germans was allowed to migrate to the west through a separate country, they just had to hand their passports to the Stasi before being let go.

        When the Stasi agents came to the train to collect the passports the east germans just threw them on the floor instead of handing them over, that is kinda how this should be viewed.

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          … we should further have a system with carrier pidgeons carrying USB Flash disks for ultra slow but highly private Internet access.

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      Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.

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              They disbanded the board looking into that on literally day 1.

              In its first full day, the Trump administration axed all advisory committee members within the Department of Homeland Security, including the people that make up the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB). The CSRB was actively working on investigating Salt Typhoon, the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group responsible for breaches of at least nine telecommunications networks in the past several months.