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nazi Germany make listening to Allied radio illegal.
Same thing with this. They'll criminialize it, and arrest anyone with Starlink equipment.
(Also much easier to find you, since they can detect your signals when you upload, unlike listening to radio where there's no EM emission from the receiver)
Why specifically upload?
I meant "transmit from your starlink antenna", so my brain just chose the word "upload" because my brain is lazy... 😅
So... to clarify: sending a request for "wikipedia.org" is still gonna transmit, which means they will find you, even if you aren't "uploading"
Wouldn't that signal be comparatively pretty weak, and difficult to parse from surrounding radiation?
Not really, flying over it with an detector would spot the frequency used pretty handily.
Starlink transmits in a relatively narrow frequency band that wouldn't have a lot of transmitters (14-14.5ghz) in a random urban area. It also transmits pretty broadly, because it needs to hit a wide area of the sky because of moving satellites.
You'd get some false positives with a detector drone, but not that many.