Re:SpaceX sends laser-linked Starlinks to the polar orbit
by walrus01 on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:08PM
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and then we come back to one of the original missions of the NSA, which was to intercept international telephone call/data/telex traffic that had no terrestrial intermediary, between two different C or Ku band geostationary earth stations in two different locations of the world which were using a geostationary transponder as a relay point.
If it's flying through the air and somebody really wants to grab it they will, whether they can read it depends on how good your crypto is.
Not necessarily. If you're communicating between two SpaceX terminals, that could feasibly avoid SpaceX ground stations. I don't know how capable SpaceX's routing actually is to know if this is within their scope though.