Starlink satellite internet service, launched by SpaceX owned by Elon Musk, left behind 400,000 subscribers and brought many discussions with it. Especially anti-US countries claim that communication with the satellite chain will be monitored. Nor are they unfair.
Starlink hacked
A project exhibited during the Hackathon initiated by SpaceX showed that access to Starlink satellites can be achieved with very simple devices. The Wouters team managed to run code on the network by integrating a box using an ARM processor and secure software into the Starlink dish. It is stated that the confirmation part can be skipped with a voltage error injection move during ROM loading.
China’s goal is to stop Starlink
The team, which can access the entire network with these codes, also entered the normally inaccessible parts of the Starlink service. Since Starlink is now a global service, such a situation may pose a security risk internationally.
SpaceX congratulated the project developers and announced that it closed the software gap in question. However, the researchers state that the processor used in the satellite terminals should be replaced with a new one and there may be a risk of attack. Starlink already has 2500 satellites and can provide internet up to 200Mbps.
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