USA's #Maxar isn't just cutting off classified satellite imagery to #Ukraine, but commercial unclassified services. How long until Starlink follows?
I'm not sure if the White House has thought thru the signal this is sending the world:
If you use American tech, cloud or telecoms, it can be turned off on a whim *while you're being invaded & bombed* to strongarm your country to sign a deal you don't want.
Imagine how many govts are currently frantically trying to migrate away from US services.
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in reply to Theresa • • •Satellite Internet - Fast, Unlimited Service
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger
Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •A non-US Signal replacement is urgently needed. Are there any?
Amgine
in reply to Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪 • • •Matrix. Germany and France, at least, are using it in Government.
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in reply to Amgine • • •Thanks! I see there are a variety of clients. Do you have any experience with any of them?
#dumpSignal #tryMatrix
@nicol
Amgine
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Much as it annoys me to say it, the Element client is the index implementation.
Several of the web-based clients are more comfortable, but not necessarily feature-complete. I have not used desktop clients other than Element (via flatpak)
Lisa
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in reply to Lisa • • •I can imagine an increasingly despotic US government requiring backdoors in secure communications platforms. It happens in autocracies. Even switching to Matrix may not be much of a hedge for very long, depending on how bad things get. One can use VPN as a wrapper until VPN also becomes illegal. US digital infrastructure just isn’t safe anymore. 💔
Kalle Kniivilä
in reply to Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪 • • •@djembro @lrt_writes I would think Signal would move to another jurisdiction rather than open a back door?
@Mer__edith #signal
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in reply to Kalle Kniivilä • • •Nordnick 🐘
in reply to Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪 • • •Depending on your needs, you may want to check out @delta@chaos.social or something like @briar@fosstodon.org or @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org ... or #XMPP or ...
#DeltaChat #Briar #Matrix
Nicol Wistreich
in reply to Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪 • • •non-profit, open source protocol, E2E encrypted, CEO who is friendly to EU regulators and isn’t afraid to criticise the web giants - indeed left Google because she was critical of their unethical AI? What’s the problem?
I can see the appeal of Matrix but I’ve struggled enough to get family and friends to leave WA for Signal.. Matrix+Element/etc would be a stretch for them.
Tom Tom
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in reply to Tom Tom • • •Are you asking whether traditional SMS could be an alternative to Signal? If so, the answer is absolutely not. SMS is wide open, no encryption at all.
Tom Tom
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in reply to Tom Tom • • •Thanks, I’ll check it out
Amgine
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •i'm not sure you (or your followers, maybe?) understand that the white house is literally just doing what putin says, and putin's goal is to remove the US from the global stage outright.
trump doesn't care if he burns the place down, as long as putin's there to tell him he's king of the ashes.
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Poul-Henning Kamp
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Isn't that /precisely/ the message you would expect a Mobster-In-Chief to want to send ?
"Nice country you have there, too bad if anything happened to it..."
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •See, I’d love to see them frantically try to migrate away from the US.
So far I think, though in shock, they’re rather trying every way to rationalize staying with US infrastructure for the time being…
David
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •The democratic world should sanction Maxar executives, board members, and major shareholders, and withhold payment to the company, until it restores access to #Ukraine.
#eupol #ukpol #cndpoli #auspol #nzpol #etcpol
Nicol Wistreich
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in reply to David • • •Maxar Technologies on LinkedIn: Maxar’s statement on media reports regarding access rights to Maxar…
Maxar Technologies (www.linkedin.com)Lien Rag
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Governments frantically trying to migrate away from US services?
German #BSI: Hold my beer
(BSI is the German CISA equivalent. And they just signed a deal for secure cloud something with that US corporation… yesterday)
Martin Vermeer FCD
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •We don't have to imagine it. We can just read news media from other countries.
I'm seriously considering subscribing to Le Monde. Turns out school French can take you a long way, and when you have an area of interest, you pick up that vocabulary quite quickly.
Ronan
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Update: statement from Maxar clarifies they were providing access to "GEGD (the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program), a U.S. govt program that provides access to commercial satellite imagery". GEGD gave access to Ukraine, & "the U.S. govt has temporarily suspended Ukrainian accounts in GEGD": linkedin.com/posts/maxar-techn….
Sounds like removing someone from your Netflix; it's not Netflix's choice, *unless* Netflix won't let them open a new ac. But Maxar haven't said Ukraine can just pay directly.
Maxar Technologies on LinkedIn: Maxar’s statement on media reports regarding access rights to Maxar…
Maxar Technologies (www.linkedin.com)Tony 💉x8 🇦🇺
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Karen
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Maxar can only cut off access to commercial, that is, unclassified, imagery. The only entity that could cut off access to classified imagery is NRO. NRO owns the classified satellites and controls the tasking, collection, and processing of classified satellite imagery.
The original post only links Maxar (correctly) to unclassified imagery.
I'm not defending Maxar, only stating the facts, which still matters.
Nicol Wistreich
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What about the fiduciary duties of the US government and people? The US agreed to provide protection from aggression to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum! #gop know about the agreement and they beat up Biden for not providing enough aid.
Now the world knows that the US CANNOT BE TRUSTED!
#putinisawarcriminal
#putinspuppet
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in reply to Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 • • •@amici the French competitor Eutelsat thinks it might just be months away… social.coop/@nicol/11412220984…
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •gonna carry PIMP-putins TRAITOR tRUMP-n-GOP Wreaking crews thru America???
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •And this will certainly cost a lot in human lives. This satellite network served the Ukrainians to find military targets on Russian territory.
This had forced the Russian army to move bomber bases well within their borders, making them less effective because they were easily found by anti-aircraft fire on their way to Ukrainian cities.
Now they can reposition them close to the border and bring death and destruction.
SeanBurlington
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •yeah the USA isn't looking like a great ally right now
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
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Just to let you know that Mastodon supports to limit timeline subscriptions per language. I suggested this for the accounts of the EU institutions and it has been implemented at least one year ago already.
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Countries outside US that have ordered f-35 or other US jets or weapons should cancel their orders.
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The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out
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With the #US is ending support for #Ukrainian F-16s.
It is only a matter of time that the US stops supplying parts to any F-16 to NATO.
It is Important that NATO countries standardize arms manufacturing without The US.... If a World War is coming NATO needs to be able to supply arms and parts knowing they can be used instantly.
Not to assume WWIII is coming is foolishness and doesn't bring it more likely also it is a viable deterrent to Putin that NATO is ready.
France and the UK needs to offer the Nuclear umbrella to all of Europe (while the UK's capability lasts)
The US is not a reliable friend of NATO
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The US abomination has quickly become the most dangerous kind of enemy. The one within.
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in reply to Paul 💙 • • •This is going to have a devastating impact on US weapons manufacturers.
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in reply to Paul 💙 • • •#uspol #trump #putin #nato
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in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Gmail Service.
Basta imaginar o que seria se Trump decidisse que o serviço do Gmail gratuito passasse a ser pago pelos utilizadores da União Europeia.
Ou simplesmente ser interrompido.
A Europa entrava em crise dum dia para o outro.
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