<story><title>China&apos;s Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/china-xinjiang-surveillance-tech-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;SpaceX&amp;#x27;s plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese government is probably looking for ways to extend Great Firewall[2] capabilities to satellites too. Hopefully users can afford the tentative pricing model of $750&amp;#x2F;year for a Starlink subscription.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dw.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its-time-for-tough-talk-on-cyber-security-in-space&amp;#x2F;a-42678704&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dw.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Great_Firewall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Great_Firewall&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Former satellite telecom engineer here, have built high capacity two way C, Ku, X and Ka band earth stations. Two big problems with China:&lt;p&gt;1. Smuggle rooftop CPE into country? Manufacture domestically in grey market factories?&lt;p&gt;2. Very low cost for Chinese law enforcement, in Xinjiang, to buy and use portable spectrum analyzers to locate the Tx frequencies coming from a 30cm-50cm sized rooftop phase array antenna, aimed at the sky. To be a viable satellite broadband product it has to have a fairly strong Tx (in EIRP). No matter what band it is in from 10.5 up to 70GHz.</text></comment>
<story><title>China&apos;s Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/china-xinjiang-surveillance-tech-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;SpaceX&amp;#x27;s plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese government is probably looking for ways to extend Great Firewall[2] capabilities to satellites too. Hopefully users can afford the tentative pricing model of $750&amp;#x2F;year for a Starlink subscription.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dw.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its-time-for-tough-talk-on-cyber-security-in-space&amp;#x2F;a-42678704&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dw.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Great_Firewall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Great_Firewall&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elefanten</author><text>Enter the international politics of geosovereignty over the EM spectrum...</text></comment>