🛰️🔐 Secure communications, when it matters most

[androcat@toot.cat]

@EUCommission

Does the EU support the Dark Skies ideal - will the EU sattelites be required to have low brightness?

[bagigio@livellosegreto.it]

@EUCommission and yet, politicians wants to spy on citizen's communications.

[droso@fosstodon.org]

@EUCommission Excellent initiative! How about non-governmental critical infrastructure for last resort communication? All obvious sat phone networks are US based. Are there european options?

[xtof@shelter.moe]

@EUCommission Do you have a link providing more info?

[ojs@c.im]

@androcat @EUCommission as far as I can tell, the this agency will be administrative only, as in administering countries access to satellites. Not getting them up there.

It will use bandwidth from satellites in the IRIS2 program.
So any technicalities about satellites and such have to be gotten from IRIS2 and they have not begun to do anything about producing satellites. I don't know about designing though.

Here is their page: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/iris2-secure-connectivity_en

[belohoub@mastodonczech.cz]

@droso @EUCommission there is one: https://www.eutelsat.com/

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@EUCommission just hope to move the communication from our phone (the one that use satellite) to an EU constellation too (for both internet and phone)

[ott0disk@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission sounds awesome and I hope there will be a retail service eventually.

[kubofhromoslav@esperanto.masto.host]

@EUCommission, sovereignty where it matters a lot

[ardentarchivist@archaeo.social]

@EUCommission

So long as it’s not Starlink, or dependent on Starlink!

[gwensampe@mastodon.social]

@ojs @androcat @EUCommission
That is interesting,Olaf. I will do a bit of further reading thanks to your post.

[steelman@mstdn.io]

@EUCommission how about a robust terrestrial system that can be kept physically out of reach of adversaries?

Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings

This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may be useful to view together with the text below. In the notes there are also additional URLs that back up the claims I make in what follows.

Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)

[droso@fosstodon.org]

@belohoub @EUCommission Indeed, but I have so far only found broadband and other data services, not anyone that will sell af phone or two, for a just in case DR scenario.

[lukalobster@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission when will be our “starlink”?

[martin@libera.site]

@lukalobster #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS%C2%B2

[torf@c.im]

@steelman @EUCommission "can be kept physically out of reach of adversaries" terrestrial systems are quire problematic with this.

[steelman@mstdn.io]

@torf @EUCommission radio transponders floating unguarded in space even more so if the adversary is not a bum looking for some copper wire but a nation state capable of sending payloads to Earth's orbit if not the Moon.

[torf@c.im]

@steelman @EUCommission So far, space ones were more reliable (not that it couldn't change, of course).

[cadelegi@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission Such a weird way to spell "Chat Control" but okay.

[eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu]

Sure thing, @xtof! Here you go: https://link.europa.eu/MKWWHN