fractalizard

Indeed.

Some people should just grow up already :)

why are you putting hackers in quotes? they presented their findings at a hacker conference and they used some cool hacks to fix trains, does that not qualify them as hackers?

* Mike Oldfield starts playing in the background *

Reading the wiki article reveals they used whoever was available and cheap: Soyus 2 (Russian, until 2022), LVM 3 (Indian,since 2022), Falcon 9 (USA, since 2022)

It makes sense for a company that does not build rockets to just use whats on the market.

maybe time for CV dazzle: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13507
This is not foolproof (read the paper for details) but it can help to protect peoples identities if used correctly.

Eutelsat

OneWeb is owned by Eutelsat and i think that is the one they refer to in the article. OneWeb satelites use 450 km - 1200 km orbits so 3 to 8 ms delay assuming the signal goes straight up and straight down again.