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  • But there will be more satellites, and not just from SpaceX. They are already disturbing astronomers work, and it will only get worse.

    There was no real debate about whether the world population is ok with it. Big corp has money, big corp acts for its interest and nothing else.

    And I’m not denying the benefits of low-orbit satellites and having vast but lowly populated areas at last getting access to a fast Internet. I’m jùst pointing out that this whole thing is happening mostly out of control (or very very few control).

    If you add that now international laws was shot and its body discarded in the toilet, also note that getting too much dependent on these satellites makes you very vulnerable to a military strike. I have no doubt that Russia, China and other countries (Iran?) are actively working on satellites destruction, with or without creating debris and giving us a Kessler syndrom. If you look at climate change, on-going life mass extinction, water scarcity, etc. there is little doubt that world leaders will make the worst possible decisions in the name of pragmatism (or religion, but it doesn’t really matter).








  • Metadata. They would still know where you were, for how long, who you talk to, when and from where. Then they combine these info. ex: you call your pop and mom, théir fridge broke down, and you start receiving ads for fridges. Was Meta listening?? No: pop and mom hinted the fridge was down (Google search or other), Meta has established your family links a long time ago, and you usually visit them after a longer than usual conversation (as they have an issue and yuu go help). Here: you fridge’s ads.


  • They could always do that, and basically anything you can read on your phone, they can access if they need.

    Encryption is a math thing: generate a pair of keys: one te encde, one to decode. I broadcast the one to encode (“public key”), and the whole world is tu use it to send me encrypted messages. I keep the decoding (“private key”) only for myself.

    In client to erver encryption, we exchange keys with the server through which go all the comms: it decodes my messages and re-encodes them for my contact.
    In e2e, the key exchange is between contacts: the server does not have the private keys.
    In Meta, the proprietary app can send your private key to the server and then they know what you wrote. You have no way to know it doesn’t do so!

    Opensource audited software is the only way to make sure.