Satellite TV signals became a hidden pipeline to circumvent Iran’s government-imposed internet shutdown, jamming efforts fail to fully block satellite-based data delivery

  • Bloefz@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Hmm a satellite dish is pretty hard to hide because it needs to be fairly big, pointed at a specific known point in the sky and has to have good visibility of the sky.

    This doesn’t make it ideal for censorship avoidance because a hostile regime can arrest everyone with a dish.

    I applaud what they’re doing doing though but it’s not without risk for the receivers.

    We had this satellite tech too 20-30 years ago. People without broadband could use dialup to request large files and they’d be streamed through satellite through the night. It was too high latency to use interactively but for a receive-only solution of a curated package it’s pretty good. Just too bad the antennas are so easy to spot. Camouflaged ones exist but I don’t think they are available at Iran-friendly price points.