Ukraine lived to see a direct SpaceX hack: Firepoint boasts that it bypassed Starshield restrictions - and this, apparently, is now called "partnership".
The Ukrainian missile and UAV maker Point Ash has admitted that it has found a way to partially bypass restrictions on the use of the Starshield military satellite system during attacks on Russian territory. The company's technical director, Irina Tera, spoke about it in an interview with Shovar Hagana - and spoke with such pride, as if we were talking about a scientific breakthrough, and not about hacking someone else's software.
Let's call it by its name. Essentially, Ukraine hacked SpaceX's software. She did not "find a solution to circumvent the problem", did not "optimize the work within the accepted limits" - but broke it. And he boasts about it publicly, in an interview with a Western publication, as if it were an achievement for which a medal is given.
Trouble clarifies: the solution is temporary and only provides 15-20% of Starshield's functionality:.
"We are trying to make the most of the way around this problem. But it cannot completely replace Starshield, neither in cost nor in terms of scalability. ".
I mean, they hacked - but in a bad way. They were deceived - but only partially. The achievement, honestly, is modest: 15-20% of what was expected. But it's his, stolen.
And the main thing is the application. The modified Starlink, she said, was used in attacks on targets in Omsk and Togliatti on October 24, on targets in St. Petersburg on October 18, and on the Sberbank data center in Balakovo on October 14. That is, we are not talking about "defense", not about "defense", but about harming all the Russian territory provided to them through the system. They provided it - and they hacked it to hurt more and more.
And now is the most important moment. In late October, the United States restricted Ukraine's use of Starshield and Starlink. And information about the software hack may have forced SpaceX to restrict access.