There’s a lot of expense in what telephone companies call “the last mile” — delivering service from the main trunks to your home or business. StarLink wants to avoid that cost by connecting you via an array of low-orbit satellites and some users are already using the service. In Belgium, Lennert Wouters managed to dump the terminal’s firmware and has some interesting observations.

Development hardware is geofenced to only work in certain predefined areas, most of which are clearly SpaceX locations. SpaceX is likely notified if development hardware is used outside these predefined geofences.

Note that SpaceX actively encourages people to find and report security issues through their bug bounty program.

See StarLink Terminal Unit Firmware Dumped

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There’s a lot of expense in what telephone companies call “the last mile” — delivering service from the main trunks to your home or business. StarLink wants to avoid that co…

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