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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by baybal2 on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:47AM (#16445046)
It will be as easy as locating an illegal VSAT station, which are countless in big cities there.
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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by walrus01 on Friday February 23, 2018 @10:12PM (#16451416)
With current geostationary-based technology any significant VSAT is easy to spot: If you want to use higher-order modulations and coding, you need gain. Which means you need at least a 1.8 to 2.4m size antenna for a serious earth station. Possibly you're confusing a small VSAT with the Rx-only TVRO type dishes which are everywhere?
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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by baybal2 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:52PM (#16454368)
Yes, they are easy to spot, and they are being spotted and their owners being jailed/executed/gutted for organs. This does not mean than an enormous amount of wealthy Chinese see their own private internet channel as a status symbol, and manufacturing of creatively styled antenna enclosures being a mid-sized industry here.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/1805114851/Beautiful-FRP-Anten...

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