• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Don’t think they were colluding with the provider. They probably just put a burner sim card into a 4g module and sent data over a VPN to China whenever it had signal.

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      10 months ago

      The blurb says primarily for navigation.

      So it was using the starlink signals like gps signal and therefore they needed to correlate with the carrier to get a rough time sync.

      I wonder what timing data is freely available on the starlink acquisition signal.

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        10 months ago

        Why would they need data then? With GPS can get a 1metre accurate chip for like 20 bucks and it’s way smaller. And no need for any carrier or subscription.

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          10 months ago

          Mapping out network topology? Who knows.

          Whatever the collected data was, it could have been sent to their satellites for long haul back home.