Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet

Re:Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet by Lanari on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:14PM (#11556990)

I didn't bother to check but if it's like SkyGrabber it works that way:

Internet via satellite is just like a big local network, when you request data it get sent in space unencrypted, you only have to read it...

So you basically download what other people are downloading without any way to control what to download except with filters that filter text, css, jpg, small files... since this is most of what people get (browsing the net...).

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Re:Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet by dogma1138 on Saturday April 23, 2016 @06:22PM (#11557674)

The data is encrypted that's actually how satellite internet works unless you have the resources of a nation state your packets will be mingled with everyone else's the receiver on your end reads all the packets but can only decrypt the ones intended for you. The uplink varies in the past the uplink usually used to go over dial-up/ISDN or even slow speed DSL but today terrestrial transmitters are quite common in most modern Satnet installations.

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Re:Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet by Lanari on Saturday April 23, 2016 @08:38PM (#11558050)

I know. But the unencrypted satellite internet is still on the market getting sold on MENA, and it's the ones SkyGrabber and other software abuse.

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