White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated the system was implemented “to enhance Wi-Fi connectivity on the complex,” citing poor cellular service in some areas and overloaded Wi-Fi networks. … instead the outlet writes that the White House is having its Starlink service piped from a government data center miles from the compound.

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    Something no IT professional has ever said: “let’s improve the Wi-Fi quality by putting the router 500km away”.

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      The cool air in the upper atmosphere cleans the waves, though. Obviously that doesn’t work horizontally, everybody knows that.

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    They could have easily made up an excuse like “contingency in case of a terrorist attack where national infrastructure is damaged” or something that’s actually believable and feasible, lol

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      It’s a military fortress housing the head of one of the most militaristic nations on Earth. It has redundancies.

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        I think it would make more sense if (their excuse was that) this was just another redundancy

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          There are so many better options to whatever they said, like there are so many better options for a properly run government. These days I just assume this is how the the US people (as a whole, I know many do not want this) want their government run, which is troubling but expected nowadays, unfortunately.

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      They’re letting the terrorism button cool off a bit, considering its basically not be let up since September 2001.

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    “Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here —” You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

    "We can even skip over the security implications pointed out by a cybersecurity expert in the Times piece. " You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

    “As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage” It doesn’t take an entire paragraph to figure out what’s going on here let alone an entire article.

    As someone from north of the USA border… PLEASE stop this man from stealing your country, Americans.