What do you mean by this? If you mean "networks can always be listened on on" then sure. If you mean "all devices have a backdoor" then no.

In general people have no fucking idea or just don't want to know.

You can lay out the evidence of all the ways cigarettes will kill a person and a huge number of people will go ahead and smoke anyway. We are not an entirely rational species.

People have a massive capacity for self delusion. Even then a lot of people who accept the truth of living under corporate and government mass surveillance think the risks are acceptable or won't be abused or are unavoidable in modern life. They are wrong but I can understand how their delusion brings them comfort.

This is what happens when you societally refuse to "pierce the corporate veil". The criminals actually performing the illegal activity wear articles of incorporation like a costume or disguise, then when they get busted, they throw that costume in a dumpster and get a new one.

I think we need Fred, Daphne, and Velma to find out who this criminal really is.

Despite being banned from Google ad platform

The most shocking news to me is that google banned something evil or malicious from their ad platform

I'm not arguing against your username, but this article is about an Israeli malware campaign using ad bids to specifically target itself towards Starlink users. There's nothing about Starlink itself being complicit.

I'd think if Starlink wanted to surveil their users (they probably do) they could find a more direct route than this (they probably have).

For one mistake? Seems like that would be appropriate if he had a track record of bad behavior perhaps.

I heard adblock was sold to advertising interests, and some of the creators that were against selling it made the content blocker ublockorigin, which works better than adblock ever did. Undetectable by websites too unlike adblockers.

I read the post and it's still a "duh." Of course, other countries will exploit the systemic corruption in our system. It makes a lot of sense for governments in non-Starlink countries to target Starlink users on their territory because those are basically guaranteed to be spies or saboteurs. And yeah, ad targetting isn't exactly a new tactic. I just don't get how agents are not using uBlock Origin. Don't they get some basic computer security best practices course?

People clapping for Internet on planes from Herr Tesla who led the massive data theft of social security and citizen records, and people would feign surprise?

As you said, duh

Alternatively, we could reinstate NASA's funding, and come up with an actually sane way to get Internet service to remote areas that doesn't involve what is essentially "space littering". Putting thousands of satellites into space for something that can be done way more practically on the ground makes every future thing you do in space harder, and severely hampers land-based astronomy. They have to track every nut and bolt in orbit for as long as they stay there, or one of those things will blow something to smithereens, even if it is small, like a literal nut or bolt.

We're letting private entities potentially trap our children here on Earth by failing to regulate and enforce what can be up there. If you envision a future with space colonies and exploration, SpaceX and Starlink are not how you get there. I'm sure its doing a great job letting yokels in the swamp watch foxnews.com though, so there's that.

You'll never guess the country who made and distributed the spyware ads...

They could also location track you with really no way to hide that