alt Hacker NewsA network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
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On other news, Iran is banning IPv6, UDP, DNS, ICMP to tighten the blackout
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/permanent-ban-ipv6-forced-nat...
Related story - in February 2026, the baggage of a Dutch diplomat was confiscated. It contained three Starlink satellite modems and seven satellite phones, concealed inside a suitcase.
https://karat.substack.com/p/a-diplomatic-suitcase-at-imam-k...
I learned from a BSides presentation that Ukranian military are using Starlink trancievers placed in pits to beat ground-based signal detection. Do with that what you will.
US military "tested" some of its new weapons during the last war on Iran, in one case killing more than 15 kids [1]. So US tech is famous for improving life quality in Iran.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-preci...
Maybe we need to start a GoFundMe to sponsor some of these Starlink terminals.... ?
The CIA and MI5 must be really disperate.
I know how to smuggle starlink devices in a mass scale into Iran.
Netblocks has been doing some very good work tracking the presence or absence of known IP blocks previously announced by Iranian ASNs. The charts really speak for themselves.
For those who don't keep track of backbone ISP topologies: Iran has 3 or 4 major entirely government controlled ASNs which all domestic ISPs are obligated to be downstream of.
The government controlled AS run all the international transit connections (at the BGP level) and also the physical fiber/longhaul DWDM systems into a few neighboring countries. It makes it very easy to cut off all the downstream domestic only ISPs.
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ISRAEL NEEDS TO BE SANCTIONED AND ISOLATED UNTIL IT GIVES UP ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS
you are never going to convince us. the protestercaust lmao
israel is a filthy apatheid regime worse then south africa
its like south africa + genocide
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israel should be sanctioned until it gives up its nuclear weapons
I thought that was exactly how the spies got made. As Iranians figured they could just narrow the signal.
I suspect the Internet blackout in Iran is not actually related to its citizens - it isn't about silencing its citizens.
It is to prevent hacking and tracking by US and Israel of what is going on over there, it is defensive since it has been shown that Iran's connected infrastructure is thoroughly compromised.
After having supported activists in egypt during the arab spring I've come to learn that it's all just coopted regime change nonsense sprinkled with "feel good activism" for Westerners. No one in Egypt is even remotely better off now. Just let Iranians deal with this on their own. From what I've researched, our impression of what their lives are supposedly like is totally shaped by intelligence services and cointelpro media anyways so why bother to get involved. We'll only make things worse for the average Iranian.