Musk warns to use Starlink antennas in Ukraine ‘far away from people’

Elon Musk is warning Starlink users in Ukraine to use the internet service only when necessary and then place antennas as far away from people as possible. According to him, the risk that the service will become a target is high.

Musk warns that Starlink is still the only non-Russian communication system in some parts of Ukraine and that the risk is high that the service is a target† On Monday, Viasat’s KA-SAT network was hit by DDOs attacks, rendering the internet service via satellites in Ukraine inoperable, according to Reuters.

Anyone setting up a Starlink satellite dish in Ukraine should consider themselves a potential target, University of California security researcher Nicholas Weaver told CNN. According to him, satellite signals can be intercepted with aircraft to locate antennas and bomb those locations. According to him, it is not easy, but Russia is said to have gained experience in picking up various signals in Syria.

Starlink made its satellite internet service available in Ukraine last weekend and the terminals arrived in the besieged country on Tuesday, so confirmed Vice President Mykhailo Fedorov. A day later he posted a photo from a saucer on a roof†

Arrival of Starlink terminals in Ukraine.