Brazilian Criminals’ Favorite New Weapon: Elon Musk’s Starlink

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It's the preferred internet provider of *checks notes* illegal Brazilian mining operations in the Amazon.

doing the exact oppositeOf course, it's not necessarily Musk's fault Brazilian crime rings took to his tech.

But even so, bad actors have certainly taken a shining to the satellite service, which seems to beStarlink "is extremely fast and really improves the ability to manage an illegal mine," Hugo Loss, operations coordinator for Ibama, told the

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