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Starlink Installed at White House to "Improve Wi-Fi" - Experts Question Security and Technical Necessity
I don’t know, they said it’s something to do with Wi-Fi?
But that’s apparently not what’s happening here, despite the efforts of a SpaceX security engineer named Chris Stanley, who the Times says “went to the roof of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex to explore installing Starlink there,” only to trip a Secret Service alarm. Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here — Elon Musk, who owns Starlink parent company SpaceX, has seemed to have his hand on the Executive Branch’s till a lot since Trump took over as President. As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage, especially one that the FCC said less than two years ago didn’t “demonstrate that it could deliver the promised service” required for rural broadband funding.
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