How she did get it from Big Ben?
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/3152697/cmdcs-swexwiwaw-grisel-marrero/ Marrero's official Navy profile is still up as of right now. Everything is peachy keen!
She seems nice.
There's a much bigger story here.
Think about how hard it was to discover this access point. Even after it was reported and there was a known wi-fi network and the access point was known to be on a single ship, it took the Navy months to find it.
Starlink devices are cheap and it will be nearly impossible to detect them at scale. That means that anyone can get around censors. If the user turns off wi-fi, they'll be nearly impossible to detect. If they leave wi-fi on in an area with a lot of wi-fi networks it will also be nearly impossible to detect. A random farmer could have Starlink in their hut. A dissident (of any nation) could hide the dish behind their toilet.
As competing networks are launched, users will be able to choose from the least restricted network for any given topic.
Unless they just turn the satellites off over the country’s that don’t want them to avoid conflict or jam all signals because they do be that way.
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But why was it hard? Surely they're accessing it w/ wifi, and scanning for wi-fi networks really isn't that hard. A military ship should have a good handle on what networks they expect, and they should be able to easily triangulate where the signal is coming from.
Also, military ships should have really strict accounting for what is brought on board. A Starlink receiver isn't particularly small, and it should be plainly obvious to security when that comes on-board.
I think it's awesome that Starlink is so accessible for the average joe, but that's a completely different topic than what's allowed on military property. This sounds like a pretty big, embarassing security fail for the US military, and more people than this individual should be reprimanded, if not fired.
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it took the Navy months to find it.
I'm surprised they didn't hide the SSID... It's likely nobody would have even found the network then.
You could easily scan for hidden SSIDs. It might not show up in your phone's wifi list, but that's by design. The traffic is still there and discoverable. Even with an app like WiFiman (made by Ubiquiti).
Disabling the wifi SSID broadcast might even increase the number of communication attempts between devices. Because all devices then must actively search for the network.
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"...the littoral combat ship..."
I don't know what this is. But it sounds like the ship should be "manned" by women.
of, relating to, or situated or growing on or near a shore especially of the sea
Cool thanks. Does everyone already know this and I'm the only one who has never heard of this before?
No, but it's pretty easy to look up unfamiliar words.
I littoral-ly thought it was a typo
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