PREVIEW: #SPACEX: Conversation with colleage Bob Zimmerman re the suspicion that Russian bad actors are hacking into Starlink -- and the professional hacker answer is blunt. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:02.0 | SpaceX. Starlink. |
| 0:04.0 | I use Starlink to the satellites to connect to the Internet. |
| 0:08.0 | The concern is that are the Russians |
| 0:13.4 | in Ukraine and elsewhere, bad actors? |
| 0:16.4 | Bob Zimmerman, Behind The Black answers the question bluntly. |
| 0:20.4 | So those of you who think that the money you're pouring into Starlink is supporting Russia, listen carefully. |
| 0:27.0 | No. Bob Zimmerman, behind the black, more of this tonight. |
| 0:31.0 | Yes, that's essentially the story, John. |
| 0:34.0 | The Pentagon, a spokesman for the Pentagon, |
| 0:37.0 | was questioned by the Congress on whether or not |
| 0:41.0 | they're doing enough to make sure Russia doesn't steal |
| 0:44.4 | starling technology that SpaceX is giving to the selling to the Ukraine and |
| 0:50.4 | this one pentagon official testified that yep they are doing more than enough to keep |
| 0:57.0 | uh... russia out of stalling they still get terminals in fact they also buy terminals |
| 1:02.4 | illegally uh... but it appears they're able to |
| 1:05.0 | block use of stalling pretty much anywhere in Russia the only places where they seem to |
| 1:09.7 | get any kind of use is on the fringes of the Ukraine border, but even there, |
| 1:14.8 | SpaceX is working very hard to block it. |
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