This story is insane. A US Navy chief:
* Purchased a Starlink system
* Installed it on an active USN ship
* Did not hide the WiFi SSID
* Named the network "STINKY"
* Lied about it to their superior
* Changed the WiFi name to make it look like a printer
* Lied about it to their superior AGAIN
* Misled inferiors to think the network was approved by the Commander
* Was only caught by a civilian information systems technician *months* later
There's so much more to it, but I didn't have the room to list it all. This is a terrible information security breach, and the fact it took this long to be caught means a serious threat exists to the whole fleet from actual enemies who know what they're doing. I'd imagine the navy must have already done a massive swipe of the whole fleet before this story came out, but still. What a mess…
I'm confused why the article claims that the report focuses on emissions, rather than on problems along the lines of sailors using something that reports their location over the Internet to all sorts of garden variety data brokers.
Hm~ I'd expect the Navy to buy data from data brokers to see if anything shows up where their ships are underway. I wonder if I expect correctly.
