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.
In any healthy democracy, this would have been seen as a scandal exposing signs of corruption and would have likely resulted in the dissolution of the government and early election.
But the US is not a healthy democracy.
Not to worry, “some cited security concerns.” We’re all set
Besides the security concerns, I want to know what they’re using it for, and how much bullshit they’re hiding by avoiding the official network.
It’s certainly not a speed and convenience thing.
Yes. That’s the joke. I’m unsure how the burning terminator dying with a thumbs up wasn’t clear enough that there is obviously more to this than just “security concerns”
Given it’s unrepresentative voting system I think how much is enough to be a democracy. T hot take for people that see democracy. Two parties to choose from is just one more than a clear dictatorship. If neither actually represents you then yeah it’s not healthy .
Agreed, except for one point. It’s an oligarchy. Our “dictator” was just selling cars on the White House lawn. Capitalism won to get to it’s late stages, happy to let racist hatred and russian influence fester for continued capital self-interest
They literally installed spyware in the WH. National security is an utter joke with these traitors.
This country was destroyed under Reagan. We needed a national security strategy against the capitalists back then and instead invited them into the government.
This is just the fire sale, the vultures picking the well rotted corpse clean. Reagan and Welch destroyed this place, don’t give Trump that much credit. He’s just an opportunist who saw profit in chaos.
The United States 1776-1980 - Died of thirst waiting for Promised Golden Showers of Prosperity that never came - Useful Idiots
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.
Well now the Chinese and Russians just need to get a way into Shartlink and they can also monitor you and your government.
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.
Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?
“some areas of the property could not get cell service”
Like the bunkers? Like hell did the white house not have cell service.
I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?
https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/
I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply “forgot” to tell the incoming Trump administration…
Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it’s probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.
Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.
They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.
Starlink has absolutely nothing to do with either of those things…
this was nothing that some Ethernet and some APs couldn’t fix. and as for the cellular issues, you’re literally the White House. Throw up a femtocell, you already have fiber for backhaul.
this is such fucking nonsense. Starlink is fixing precisely none of this.
I mean I think it’s safe to say these issues never existed in the first place. Nothing but more fables from the liar in Chief.
agree 100%, I just find what limited joy I can in pointing out that this is likely bullshit and at best a con. I also get a kick out of shitting on Musk for pretending to know what he’s talking about when it comes to tech :)
Amazing how the but her emails crowd is fine with all the private servers and now private internet access from Trump and co
Yalls remember the security concerns when that sailor secretly installed a star link on a US warship?
Are you a white house staffer carrying a heavy stack of top secret documents? Do you desperately need both hands to vape or to text roger stone a progress report? Try DOCDASH!
Just request a docdasher in app and a helpful person like Yvegeny, Dmitri or Boris will show up to the white house on a motorcycle, take your documents from you, not copy and transmit them, and just keep them very safe, like tippy top safe.
Ah yes, because what the white house needs is an inferior ISP to plug the gaps that could easily be filled by proper wireless access point configuration and distribution.
This is definitely not going to come back to haunt us later.
depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn’t likely to make that any better.
this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.
Musk is literally a James Bond villain. Literally. Like LITERALLY a Bond villain.
Edit: minus the genius and charisma
Imagine how galling this must be for Jeff Bezos. He’s put so much effort into his Bond villain persona. The guy even now looks like Dr Evil. But he’s being out eviled by a pudgy, dorky-looking South African nepo-baby.
deleted by creator
Goldmember got charisma in droves though
deleted by creator
I do not believe for a second that communications within the Whitehouse are inadequate, or if they were, could not be solved in a secure manner. Slapping a Starlink in a few places sounds like an invitation to backdoor all communications. Not only that, it is an invitation to sidestep obligations to preserve government records.
deleted by creator
Well it looks like more people need to be screwed over, I guess maybe after it affects enough “Me’s” it’ll probably stay the same. The amount of damage that will be done before the American people stand up will be immense.
I honestly cannot believe that the average American is in agreement with this and that they think holding signs up will do anything. Sorry but they say violence is never the right course of action, but I think in this case you might need to see if that well regulated militia is ready to defend your freedom.
And shame on the Democratic party for just rolling over.
We’re only a couple of months into this administration. We’re super duper fucked.
The existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was “overtaxed” so they just threw up satellite instead of , I don’t know, improving the Wi-Fi infrastructure? There’s perfectly fine WiFi at sprawling work and college campuses, and stadiums that seat tens of thousands of people. What a joke.
Network infrastructure is a science and we don’t need no damn science in this country!
President Musk making it feel more like home.
Add 13 children of ambiguous parentage he can ignore, and snug as a bug!Enjoy the high latency.
Are they then routing all starlink traffic to Russia?
