[wil421]

The intelligence agencies should already have taps into Starlink and should be able see the data. Whether do anything is another story.

Or Starlink uses an encryption scheme somewhere in the network only the big boys can break.

[halJordan]

They don't "just have taps" in whatever isp you come across. And they certainly, and i cannot be clear enough on this, they don't just spy on Americans. It's literally the one thing they expressly forbidden from doing

[Amezarak]

I’m not sure there was ever a time when they didn’t have taps, but this is definitely not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Even in the days of telegrams, FDR was opening and reading millions of American’s telegrams to use the information therein to target his political enemies.

You can’t build centralized systems that enable spying and not expect people to do the “forbidden” thing. We have to build systems that make this impractical.

[lucketone]

Organised crime is illegal, thus mafia is fixtion.

[wil421]

I’m sure you thought GSM was secure too. They absolutely have taps, just search for YouTube videos then cross reference the exact places and situations they talk about.

[lII1lIlI11ll]

> The intelligence agencies should already have taps into Starlink and should be able see the data.

By "data" you mean seemingly random stream of 0s and 1s of bunch of TLS channels?