All of the infrastructure has to be way more easily accessible on the ground anyways
Not really. When in Russia some government bureaucrats begen to explore idea of total control of cross-border links, it was quickly discovered, that nobody knows where huge part of that links is.
F.e., in 90s, when interent had huge grow in Russia, imagine that some company who declared a need of single cable to Finland from SaintPeterburg got an approval. You might think, that it will lay single cable to the bottom of Baltic sea and it will be in papers. But that's not how things really happen. That company rent a cable laying ship. And it does not matter, how many cables you really lay from it - one or four. And of course there was a lot of shenanigans with number of fibers in one cable, when it was 32 fibers on paper with 64 in reality. So, that ended in one official cross-border cable and three unofficial, not even talking about fibers amount. Unofficial cables often was connected to country backbone in unexpected places and today nobody knows where that cables physically are and how they are physically connected. To find it out government need enormous amount of stuff, money and time, with potentialy huge problems with connectivity, that could lead to social unrest (you know that zoomers who can't go for a minute without internet connection) so, they abandoned that idea.
Interesting, that Finland side in that example do exactly same thing - they declared one cable in documents and got three unofficially. People that worked for telecom at that time was not very obedient to governments and believed in all that free information and network anarchy stuff. Good people.
So, no, it is not as simple as it sounds to take control over ground network. Of course, may be some countries had strict laws and very obedient IT specialists that give up every single fiber to state agencies and their employers, like in North Korea or China (not shure about China, really), but it is just few countries, not the whole world they want to control.
However, until that happens, i can still use a GrapheneOS phone via generic pre-paid SIM to use what I need.
No Starlink needed, not even accessible.
And the same counter-attack vectors work for those: when you don't want to be spied on, make sure you know how faraday gages work. Turning off your phone is not enough (RE: NSO / Pegasus), nor is putting it in "airplane" mode.
Cash I continue to use as long as it works.
My personal plan is to escape G-20 countries to a place with MUCH less infrastructure (3G/4G/5G towers, surveillance cams, drones, police, Starlink coverage) well before 2030...
Till then, all I can do is prepare and mitigate.
Obfuscating currently is the only solution, unless you're Amish.
Not really. When in Russia some government bureaucrats begen to explore idea of total control of cross-border links, it was quickly discovered, that nobody knows where huge part of that links is.
F.e., in 90s, when interent had huge grow in Russia, imagine that some company who declared a need of single cable to Finland from SaintPeterburg got an approval. You might think, that it will lay single cable to the bottom of Baltic sea and it will be in papers. But that's not how things really happen. That company rent a cable laying ship. And it does not matter, how many cables you really lay from it - one or four. And of course there was a lot of shenanigans with number of fibers in one cable, when it was 32 fibers on paper with 64 in reality. So, that ended in one official cross-border cable and three unofficial, not even talking about fibers amount. Unofficial cables often was connected to country backbone in unexpected places and today nobody knows where that cables physically are and how they are physically connected. To find it out government need enormous amount of stuff, money and time, with potentialy huge problems with connectivity, that could lead to social unrest (you know that zoomers who can't go for a minute without internet connection) so, they abandoned that idea.
Interesting, that Finland side in that example do exactly same thing - they declared one cable in documents and got three unofficially. People that worked for telecom at that time was not very obedient to governments and believed in all that free information and network anarchy stuff. Good people.
So, no, it is not as simple as it sounds to take control over ground network. Of course, may be some countries had strict laws and very obedient IT specialists that give up every single fiber to state agencies and their employers, like in North Korea or China (not shure about China, really), but it is just few countries, not the whole world they want to control.
maybe they'll position all of em just right and encase us in a metal ball....like a death star. What's with the extra green grid over US and Europe?
learn the blind spots of coverage, nothing is perfect
learn to build / buy faraday gages
wait for Solar flares X to punch big holes into that grid and make further launches near impossible
All valid points and I'm not ignoring them.
However, until that happens, i can still use a GrapheneOS phone via generic pre-paid SIM to use what I need.
No Starlink needed, not even accessible.
And the same counter-attack vectors work for those: when you don't want to be spied on, make sure you know how faraday gages work. Turning off your phone is not enough (RE: NSO / Pegasus), nor is putting it in "airplane" mode.
Cash I continue to use as long as it works.
My personal plan is to escape G-20 countries to a place with MUCH less infrastructure (3G/4G/5G towers, surveillance cams, drones, police, Starlink coverage) well before 2030...
Till then, all I can do is prepare and mitigate.
Obfuscating currently is the only solution, unless you're Amish.