An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was having a hard time imagining which company this could be. Not that I’m a fan of Verizon or Comcast, but I think they know what side their bread is buttered on. Which one wouldn’t?

    Then I remembered Starlink exists.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Don’t think they were colluding with the provider. They probably just put a burner sim card into a 4g module and sent data over a VPN to China whenever it had signal.