alt Hacker NewsA network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
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US military "tested" some of its new weapons during the last war on Iran, in one case killing more than 15 kids [1]. So US tech is famous for improving life quality in Iran.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-preci...
I learned from a BSides presentation that Ukranian military are using Starlink trancievers placed in pits to beat ground-based signal detection. Do with that what you will.
Netblocks has been doing some very good work tracking the presence or absence of known IP blocks previously announced by Iranian ASNs. The charts really speak for themselves.
For those who don't keep track of backbone ISP topologies: Iran has 3 or 4 major entirely government controlled ASNs which all domestic ISPs are obligated to be downstream of.
The government controlled AS run all the international transit connections (at the BGP level) and also the physical fiber/longhaul DWDM systems into a few neighboring countries. It makes it very easy to cut off all the downstream domestic only ISPs.
Maybe we need to start a GoFundMe to sponsor some of these Starlink terminals.... ?
I know how to smuggle starlink devices in a mass scale into Iran.
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israel should be sanctioned until it gives up its nuclear weapons
I thought that was exactly how the spies got made. As Iranians figured they could just narrow the signal.
I suspect the Internet blackout in Iran is not actually related to its citizens - it isn't about silencing its citizens.
It is to prevent hacking and tracking by US and Israel of what is going on over there, it is defensive since it has been shown that Iran's connected infrastructure is thoroughly compromised.
On other news, Iran is banning IPv6, UDP, DNS, ICMP to tighten the blackout
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/permanent-ban-ipv6-forced-nat...