If #BlockstreamSatellite wasn't using #cringe #Bitcoin but #Monero it would've been a cool idea for an #anonymous #messaging system...

• Sadly even besides that it has huge coverage gaps...

Anyone know who to talk to at #SES / #Intelsat and/or #Eutelsat to get #narrowband #SCPC (or #MCPC for Audio / #Radio bandwith)?

• Cuz I imagine something like that wouldn't be that expensive given that it's like easy to mux & demux and requiring less bandwith than an actual TV or radio station broadcast...

OFC people will rightfully point at #IridiumBurst ¹ and #Iridium #SBD² but those require #subscriptions³ & expensive, custom devices⁴ and whilst in turn one can send free #SMS to #Iridium devices, those are limited to like 50 and one can't use a nice #API to basically make them.

• Plus 270-1890 bytes (!!!) is not enough to do proper #E2EE with sufficiently-large keys in #PGP encryption!

Cuz a C-band mesh reflector & LNB is at least feasible to obtain and setup in most places that have no Internet.

@lowpass well, that's the beauty of #SpectrumRegulations and #SpectrumEnforcement:

• Good regulators will go after illegally powerful transmitters just as they do with any other #SpectrumViolation...

Also CB can get good range out of COTS transcievers ( 80 km easy out of a simple station antenna - 20 km out of a good mobile handset), it is a cheap "long-range" solution given the lack of need for licensing.

• OFC unlike #HamRadio there are way higher chances of abusive behaviour in theory but in return it allows for interesting setups that have way lower electromagnetic footprint, like recieve-only DIY pagers running off cheap #RTLSDR chipsets (#RTL2832U + #R820T-2) that barely consume power...

But then again it depends on whether or not one values analog radio capabilities or not, and whether or not.one trusts users to setup stuff properly.

• #LoRa makes it easy by virtue of being a "transparent" solution to the user at the cost of flexibility.

• #SDR transcievers like the #YardStickOne and can be really powerful, the latter one propably even be used for #SCPC over SAT with a proper #BUC & Voltage applied to that (don't forget the power-blocker at the HackRF's input/output ports (!!!), but if someone wants to have a Sub-€100 setup for transmission ans Sub-€50 for recieval, there ain't many as flexible as #AFSK'ing over CB Radio even at the expense of efficiency.

• Also one doesn't end up with a ton of basically "unsalvageable" #eWaste if one gives up on said project or has to scrap it for whatever reason, and #reusing is always better than buying new if feasible...

The State Cyber Protection Centre of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (SCPC SSSCIP), in collaboration with Unit 42, has a whopping 94 page malware analysis report (complete with IOC) on Smoke Loader malware (aka Dofoil or Sharik), used in a surge of recent attacks on Ukrainian financial institutions and government organizations. Ukraine’s CERT-UA first identified Smoke Loader used by the financially motivated threat group UAC-0006 on 05 May 2023. Since then, Smoke Loader has been used worldwide and also in ransomware attacks. 🔗 https://scpc.gov.ua/en/articles/356

#SmokeLoader #malware #threatintel #UAC0006 #Ukraine #SCPC #SSSCIP #Ukraine #CERTUA #IOC