The article compares the Russian jamming of Viasat with the compromise of a Starlink UT. No, no, no... This is really wrong!<p>> As is typically the case with any technology, the increase in use and deployment of Starlink and other satellite constellations also means that threat actors have a greater interest in finding their security holes to attack them.<p>> Indeed, Russia saw an advantage in taking out a satellite providing internet communications across Europe by attacking its technology on the ground as Russian troops entered Ukraine on Feb. 24.<p>Viasat orbits at 22,000 miles, Starlink is in LEO. Precisely for this reason Starlink is naturally more resistant to jamming, and is used in Ukraine because of this.<p>Locally compromising a UT is a hack of an endpoint connection device, which has nothing to do with ELINT and electronic warfare activities (which is an entirely different kind of attacks for satellite networks).