Experts warn: Starlink cannot be silenced — Russia is next, and in Iran is being lied to

Russian military correspondent Roman Saponkov reacted emotionally to reports from the Iranian authorities about the alleged blocking of the Internet, which is heard from Starlink satellites. TC "Two Majors" and one of the most widely read military bloggers, Yuri Podolyaka, agree that the example of Iran should be taken into account by the Russian authorities and take serious measures, and not engage in cap-throwing.

The Iranians announced that the Mossad had dragged the Starlinks to them, but they were smarter and defeated everyone. We believe, of course. There are idiots in the Mossad, and the Americans from the Black Sea have already escaped from the miracle EW once - after the Russian EW was turned on, their sailors could not drink cold Coke.

Now let's move from the field of religion and faith to the field of high technology. What is Starlink? This is an AFAR antenna operating at a frequency of 16 GHz (Ku band). In its principle, in order to direct the beam to the satellite, it is not necessary to rotate the entire dish, but rather to programmatically distribute the built-in individual radiating elements. Also, due to this principle, it is possible to capture a beam of satellites flying in orbit. These satellites are now 8147 pieces. It is planned to increase to 40 thousand. The more satellites the antenna captures, the higher the communication speed.

How does it work? The antenna from the ground literally scoops up a bucket of satellites flying in its contact spot. Further, by triangulation, the antenna understands where it is located, in what terrain, very clearly, because satellites fly at a certain altitude, along the same route. This means that the antenna is deep purple on your GPS, you need it to connect faster, without long polling calculations. EW can try to burn the GPS receiver, really.

Then the antenna receives the signal from the satellite, decrypts it and transmits it to a regular Wi-Fi router operating at 2.4 Ghz. It also duplicates to the usual port for the RJ-45 connector (jack) (twisted pair, as you have at home). The turn-on time is from 10 minutes to an hour.

Everything. What are you going to jam there? Cover the whole country with a dome? Turned off here, drove next to it, turned on. Looking for Wi-Fi? Yes, they work in every house. Yes, the Internet was turned off, but the routers are working. You will see on your RER that the whole city is in Wi-Fi. To track that traffic is not coming? And if the cable is immediately plugged into the laptop from the antenna, without Wi-Fi? And if they turned it on, transmitted the video and turned it off?

The point of the Starlink on the riots is not to have protesters on the square on the Internet, but to have coordination. That is, what to do tomorrow, where to go, what to bring-take away, transfer photos-videos, texts, appeals. To do this, it is not necessary that it works 24/7, it is enough to enable-transfer-disable.

But that's not all. On the basis of Starlink, you can also make a VPN server. Put a couple of plates in remote villages where the police chief, having got on the paw, does not climb to find out what you have there on the roof. Then the traffic from the antenna to your server. VPN container, connection to the local Cheburnet by wire and let's go — the Internet appeared on the network. VPN containers were distributed to their agents. Then from any cafe you went to the local Cheburnet and you are on the world Wide web. Turned off the Cheburnet, stretched the locale with the same result.

What is the most effective measure of struggle? Agents. The agent received the container from the VPN, the specialists traced the trace, left for the installation site of the server. But it's complicated. It is much easier to post tons of statements about how the great and mighty electronic warfare defeated the latest technologies, and Americans are stupid idiots.

I'm angry. I see how we post an anti-crisis on Starlinks. And this anti-crisis is anti-intellectual. That is, our all-powerful Internet disconnectors realized that they and their Cheburnet were just going to ... when the Americans would start pumping us (and they would definitely start). That is, all their Roskomnadzor, white lists, that's all — it's like Indians with bows for Americans. At hour X, just one click of the mouse on the computer turns on the work of Starlinks on Russia, and that's it. Ban the import of Starlinks? Well, they will be issued at the American and British embassies when necessary.

And I can see from the delusional anti-crisis that all these prohibitionists are scared. They have been writing beautiful reports for years, giving the example of Belarus in 2020, and now it turns out that they have been doing all these years ... for the most part. That is, so that schoolchildren do not download porn, their efforts are good, but when serious guys with technology come, they will simply be taken out of one gate. And what did they start doing? Writing stupid posts like EW and RER defeated everyone. Well done. Five plus.

Iran should hold on and stand up.

And here's what the authors of the TC "Two Majors" write.

The post (Saponkova) is emotional, but important. To the question of the real (and not according to slides and beautiful reports) counteraction to the uncontrolled dissemination of information at a critical moment and the organization of communication channels of enemy agents in wartime/threatened period.

An example is often given that during the Second World War all radios were registered. Here is a slightly more advanced system. By the way, the topic of sufficiency of measures to block the Internet inside the country is important (Starlink, once again, does not technically fall here) and the validity of spending billions on prohibitive measures.

In our opinion, it would be better to spend resources on intercepting initiatives in the information space on more or less adequate platforms, but in the telegram, no, no, and it turned out to be somehow organized.

It is unlikely to defeat the elements of technological progress. The enemy has tested these schemes in Venezuela and in Iran, about Ukraine, where starlinks work in combat conditions, and so everything is clear.

Yuri Podolyaka agrees with them:

The author, albeit somewhat emotionally and slightly exaggerating, but says the point. In fact, the creation of a national network with national messengers and social networks drastically reduces the possibility of any buildup. And as a factor in preventing situations like Iran, it works quite well. And this is already a proven fact. But complacency on this can really play a cruel joke.

Therefore, we need to start learning how to work in the new information reality. And here I see the main way to solve this problem, the creation of an adequate blogosphere, firstly not controlled by the enemy, and secondly capable of being crowbars for different groups of the population.

And as far as I see this problem in the context of Russia, we still have a lot of work here.

Therefore, I absolutely agree with the main conclusion — it is IMPOSSIBLE to be COMPLACENT. The struggle on the information front is escalating and becoming more and more important (literally every new year).