I mean, a country with minimal military spending (or, one that doesn’t have their own encrypted satellite network) can get a commodity device that gives modern connection speeds with very modest latency.

But the empowerment it obviously gives to an underpowered military is phenomenal.

Indeed, that’s how it was sold. But that’s not what it ever really was. What it really is, is a big fat on/off button in the hands of a private corporation, and the nation where that corporation is based. It’s generally a bad idea to put the on/off button of your entire military into the hands of an outside power, as is made abundantly clear now.

This kind of technology isn’t really feasible for smaller nations to establish on their own. The only countries that should ever rely on Starlink, or it’s equivalent, are countries that either control it, or countries that are already vassals of countries that control it.

Not like Ukraine exactly had a lot of options at the time, of course…

Adding this as a comment, instead of soap boxing my own opinion from the post body:

I think we should sign it. Personally, I would appreciate Infosec.Pub defederating form any Fediverse instance run by, or affiliated with companies/corporations that have a stake in the data business or AI development.

Yup, it’s much appreciated!

Awesome, thanks jerry!

Welcome to the party @Natanael@infosec.pub - glad you want to take care of !crypto@infosec.pub! I hope you’ll be able to convince a decent chunk of your community to come with. :)

Perhaps look into finding a decent cross-post tool, and start cross-posting any posts made on /r/crypto to /c/crypto. Well, I suppose you should give OP a short amount of time to also post here, in case they already have an account, but otherwise, you should do it. No one will migrate, or start being active here, if there isn’t already some activity.

I think you would be a most perfect fit here. I think a lot of people on this instance would be excited to have a vibrant crypto community here.

The crypto community we have here isn’t so much “lower quality” as it is just dead. There’s been just three posts there in the last year. I was going to suggest you ask the owner of it if you could take over, but it looks like they haven’t been active for two years.

I think you should just ask @jerry@infosec.pub or @shellsharks@infosec.pub if you can take over. There’s no reason to have two crypto communities, if one of them is dead; you get to keep your old identity of being called “crypto”, instead of “cryptography”, or something else; and there are presumably a lot of the subscribers of /c/crypto that would very much like to have an active crypto community show up in their feed.

Welcome to Lemmy, and to Infosec.pub - I hope to be able to say the same to your community!