He’s already selling to both sides with Starlink. Who is to say Musk won’t be doing the same with this? He’s really playing up the Bond Villain stereotype.
I’m getting Deus Ex vibes
A lot wrong here, I’m sorry to say, and I’m really not a fan of Musk. He is absolutely not selling Starlink to be used by Russia. That would be shut down real quick. (They may be using black-market terminals, but that’s a different question.) And this new constellation will, as I understand it, be owned and operated by the US govt. Think like every single spy satellite ever: govt finds a contractor and asks them to do a thing.
Oh, right. They couldnt possibly make another and sell that to someone else, oh wait…
Seems problematic, considering what a fuckwad musk is.
Seems like after his satellite shenanigans in Ukraine, the US would be more… cautious.
This. Musk disabled Starlink to fark over the Ukrainians. He should not be trusted with any military contracts. Ever.
Having mega corporations design space networks for you sounds like a great idea until they decide to lock you out and hold your government hostage. Or sell intel… Or sell access to other actors….
Just admit it—the corporations run the world at this point.
straight up supervillain shit, as always
Just spitballing here, but it will get hacked and cause a major problem, if not a crisis.
They’ll probably all drop out of orbit before that happens though. I give it a week from launch.
The more ridiculous, the more plausible, because it has happened. 😂
There are numerous spy satellites up there already from many nations, any of them being hacked would be just as bad.
The DoD is going to be involved in how they are secured.
" . . . for U.S. intelligence."
Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.
And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.
