The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread
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@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
It was my understanding that the satellite is just a repeater that can handle many connections.
Basically yes. We have some encrypted traffic and some that’s not, but it’s up to the customer to enable that. The article was a bit weird talking about Tmobile texts that it said were unencrypted, but then later was talking about the metadata only. Usually the payload (message) would be encrypted if the customer wanted, but there is a wrapper of metadata that the satellite adds in plain text. They should be able to see like the device ID (IMEI or sim) and some other info, but at least on our network it’s obfuscated through algorithms.
Also they were looking at geostationary constellations, which in theory you could monitor from a certain location, but it’s a bit harder for LEO constellations because the satellite is moving and handing off traffic as satellites move in and out of the region. Something like Starlink would be nearly impossible because you don’t know which of the thousands of satellites is connected to the device you want to monitor at any point in time. At least dozens are over a user at any point in time.
I saw a story a while back about some old Navy communication satellites launched in the 70s or 80s that are basically repeaters and anybody can connect to them. It’s illegal to do that here, but in Brazil they don’t give a fuck about our laws so truckers or people in remote areas use them to call their friends and family. You can pick up the traffic on ham radios.
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This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
"laissez les bons temps rouler!"
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@Gators1 yeah,a few years ago i saw a guy in Galveston with a hand held antenna pointed out high over the Gulf and a heasdset. He way probably monitoring some drug trafficking conversation.
Do they still use the prick (PRC) 117? I’ve seen those as portable units as well as installed in planes.
GTFO
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@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
And Starlink has some competition from Amazon.
Amazon’s satellite communication initiative is Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of over 3,200 satellites designed to provide fast, low-latency internet service globally. The project uses advanced communications payloads, including optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) for high-speed data transfer between spacecraft, and has begun a series of launches to deploy its initial constellation. While the full service launch is pending the deployment of more satellites, Amazon is working to become a competitor to existing satellite internet providers like Starlink.
GTFO
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@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
Yeah, it’s all basically to increase the capacity available like with cellphones. Once they started doing broadband over cellphones, the existing towers got saturated and people were dropping connections. There was a mad dash to add more towers in places like NYC to support the traffic. The amount of spectrum you own limits the amount of bandwidth in a certain area, so to get more you build more towers closer together and turn down the power so you can serve more customers. Same deal in space, the more satellites you have, the more data you can push out of a particular area. Since SpaceX is covering large areas and doing broadband over satellite, they need a lot of them.
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There is a practical limit to the amount of traffic a single satellite may provide so It’s easy to see that thousands will be/are needed and this helps to the system less vulnerable to sudden destruction as well.
Decentralization FTW!
Here are specs on the AN/PRC 117(F):
ANPRC-117F datasheet(1/2 Pages) HARRIS
The Harris AN/PRC-117F(C) multiband, multimission, manpack radiois an advanced software-defined radio covering the entire 30 to 512MHz frequency spectrum, providing the warfighter with unsurpassedbattle-proven communications technology.The AN/PRC-117F(C) has embedded Communications Security(COMSEC)...
The Chinese are making knock-offs which are available on Ebay and in other places.
I would suppose encryption capabilities are not included.
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@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Gators1 yeah,a few years ago i saw a guy in Galveston with a hand held antenna pointed out high over the Gulf and a heasdset. He way probably monitoring some drug trafficking conversation.
Do they still use the prick (PRC) 117? I’ve seen those as portable units as well as installed in planes.
I don’t think the military uses it, it’s pretty big. I watched this video talking about Operation Redwing where a bunch of Seals got killed in Afghanistan. They were using the military satcom network, but fucked up the radio settings. In the end they remembered they had an Iridium handset and used that to call for help, which they should have done in the first place.
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@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
And Starlink has some competition from Amazon.
Amazon’s satellite communication initiative is Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of over 3,200 satellites designed to provide fast, low-latency internet service globally. The project uses advanced communications payloads, including optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) for high-speed data transfer between spacecraft, and has begun a series of launches to deploy its initial constellation. While the full service launch is pending the deployment of more satellites, Amazon is working to become a competitor to existing satellite internet providers like Starlink.
Amazon is way behind though. They are still launching dildos full of tourists, not even their first orbital vehicles.
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@Gators1 I was watching feed for the Starship 11 launch and they ejected eight mock satellites which were referred to as “Bricks” or steel plates One commentator said they were Amazon’s and the others LOL’d.
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@Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
And Starlink has some competition from Amazon.
Amazon’s satellite communication initiative is Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of over 3,200 satellites designed to provide fast, low-latency internet service globally. The project uses advanced communications payloads, including optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) for high-speed data transfer between spacecraft, and has begun a series of launches to deploy its initial constellation. While the full service launch is pending the deployment of more satellites, Amazon is working to become a competitor to existing satellite internet providers like Starlink.
Amazon is way behind though. They are still launching dildos full of tourists, not even their first orbital vehicles.
I can picture tourists filled with dildos but I am experiencing a failure of imagination picturing dildos filled with tourists.
Can you provide a photograph for me?
"laissez les bons temps rouler!"
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@Jam The Russian press is way ahead of Amazon
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@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Jam The Russian press is way ahead of Amazon
lulz wut
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I bet that, if you could turn up the sound, you’d hear the guy at the lectern is saying: “Don’t bend over! Don’t bend over!”
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@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Gators1 said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Jam said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
This came as a shock to me:
As of October 2025, there are approximately 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit, with plans for up to 42,000 in the future. These satellites are part of SpaceX’s effort to provide global internet coverage.
It stands to reason that there’d be a lot of them, but 8,500 headed to 42,000 was a surprise.
Radio amateurs:
https://hamradioprep.com/ham-radio-satellites/
I remember the firs OSCAR which simply orbited the earth sending out HI in Morse code.
… (another .) … (minus one .)
Fucking forum only allows three of the same characters in a row, followed by either one “.” or “…” but not just two fucking dots!
dit dit dit dit, dit dit
And Starlink has some competition from Amazon.
Amazon’s satellite communication initiative is Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of over 3,200 satellites designed to provide fast, low-latency internet service globally. The project uses advanced communications payloads, including optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) for high-speed data transfer between spacecraft, and has begun a series of launches to deploy its initial constellation. While the full service launch is pending the deployment of more satellites, Amazon is working to become a competitor to existing satellite internet providers like Starlink.
Amazon is way behind though. They are still launching dildos full of tourists, not even their first orbital vehicles.
I can picture tourists filled with dildos but I am experiencing a failure of imagination picturing dildos filled with tourists.
Can you provide a photograph for me?
Sorry, that space ship is obscene.
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Wait until AI disconnects itself from our guidance.
You’ll get all the spaceship porn you could ever dream of!!!
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@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji NSA can probably get anything they need by accessing one’s browsing, download history, and web traffic, through an internet provider or group chat like Discord.
Of course, if someone does get arrested and a computer is seized, they’ll just get a search warrant for it’s contents and have some 11 year old hack into it to retrieve everything else.
Fck computers then.
Psst they can open your mail!
Legally?
With a warrant definitely. During WWII there was a lot of mail opening.
A lot of that started way back with the anarchist scares.
Nowadays theoretically only a warrant unless foreign or immediate threat. But of course there can be secret national security directives.
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I went through Groupon and bought the Windows 11 license for around $10, far below the retail price.
I’ll probably buy this next through Groupon. It’s legit and works.
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@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji NSA can probably get anything they need by accessing one’s browsing, download history, and web traffic, through an internet provider or group chat like Discord.
Of course, if someone does get arrested and a computer is seized, they’ll just get a search warrant for it’s contents and have some 11 year old hack into it to retrieve everything else.
Fck computers then.
Psst they can open your mail!
Legally?
With a warrant definitely. During WWII there was a lot of mail opening.
A lot of that started way back with the anarchist scares.
Nowadays theoretically only a warrant unless foreign or immediate threat. But of course there can be secret national security directives.
.Thx. I see times have changed.
Son of a bitch.
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@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji NSA can probably get anything they need by accessing one’s browsing, download history, and web traffic, through an internet provider or group chat like Discord.
Of course, if someone does get arrested and a computer is seized, they’ll just get a search warrant for it’s contents and have some 11 year old hack into it to retrieve everything else.
Fck computers then.
Psst they can open your mail!
Legally?
With a warrant definitely. During WWII there was a lot of mail opening.
A lot of that started way back with the anarchist scares.
Nowadays theoretically only a warrant unless foreign or immediate threat. But of course there can be secret national security directives.
.Thx. I see times have changed.
Son of a bitch.
It’s actually improved from earlier.
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@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Kilemall said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@Tazz said in The Official fuck Windows 11/Microsoft Thread:
@oyaji NSA can probably get anything they need by accessing one’s browsing, download history, and web traffic, through an internet provider or group chat like Discord.
Of course, if someone does get arrested and a computer is seized, they’ll just get a search warrant for it’s contents and have some 11 year old hack into it to retrieve everything else.
Fck computers then.
Psst they can open your mail!
Legally?
With a warrant definitely. During WWII there was a lot of mail opening.
A lot of that started way back with the anarchist scares.
Nowadays theoretically only a warrant unless foreign or immediate threat. But of course there can be secret national security directives.
.Thx. I see times have changed.
Son of a bitch.
It’s actually improved from earlier.
When asked some time after 9ty-'leventy what sort of communication he used when he desired ultimate privacy, Jimmy Carter replied “the US Mail.”
The REAL Operation Red Wings FAILURES You’ve Never Heard.
Can the Government Open Your Mail Without a Warrant? - Wirth Law Office - Tulsa
