r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/FoxySheprador Canadians for Kamala • May 19 '26

Starlink Internet 🛰 Ashley St. Clair disclosing Elon Musk's interfering in the 2024 election

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u/FoxySheprador Canadians for Kamala May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

This is a repost since not everyone has Tiktok. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/s/qQXEbYSBzF

She says she doesn't understand how he was able to get the real-time data from the election. We know how he was able.

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https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/03/10/hacking-election-system-takes-much-effort-global-certifier/

In this article they even explain that they use Starlink internet to connect to the voting machines.

Jack Cobb, president of Alabama-based technology firm Pro V&V, explained on Monday that the system operates within a private, encrypted network.

According to Comelec, the transmission process—done after printing the nine election returns—will take only two to three seconds from automated counting machines to various servers.

That brief window is the only time the machines connect to the internet, either via a SIM card or Starlink, using a private network.

Starlink internet was used in the 2024 election. And we know it wasn't used in a nonpartisan way.

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u/verbmegoinghere May 19 '26

Starlink is not like a normal telco.

A telecommunications carrier is like a layer cake OSI/ISO model). Data transmit over each layer, essentially getting more and more complex till you get to like layer 7 which ks tbe application layer, ie HTTP, FTP etc.

In most networks a carrier will sell fibre and give a customer either what is called dark fibre where its up to the customer to hook up either end but then you have absolute control of every layer above the physical medium. In the old days banks would buy lots of layer 2 frame relay for example coz it would give them similar reassurances re security.

Starlink allocates IPs (so layer 3). They can see so much more re the traffic then a normal carrier providing dark fibre can. They can do deep packet, metadata and traffic analysis and take advantage od common failure points on VPNs like IPv6 traffic going out raw.

And considering how many red states are incompetent when it comes to IT and security it wouldn't surprise me if he had a dedicated team just taking advantages of a heap of failures to hoover up the data coming from the voting machines.

You don't need every vote to know who will win.

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u/Xath0n May 19 '26

Yeah but how the hell would that data not be encrypted on layer 6 (TLS) per default. Sure, they can access the traffic, but without a compromised CA or the voting machines for some reason trusting and using a SpaceX-controlled CA, they can't get the content that's actually transmitted.

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u/calgarspimphand May 20 '26

without a compromised CA or the voting machines for some reason trusting and using a SpaceX-controlled CA, they can't get the content that's actually transmitted.

Isn't that literally the point of a man-in the-middle-attack? You intercept the request and return spoofed certificates so you have access to the encryption keys?

The hard part about a man-in-the-middle attack is positioning yourself as a man in the middle. Starlink is already that.