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They're critical so best option is to wreck them.
Great write up about a somber topic.

Does anyone understand the security concerns here? The satellites can still be tracked and intercepted even with the feed unplugged so what does this really accomplish?

> to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk to the their High-Performance Computing environment

This is absolutely a lie. If there was a "significant cybersecurity risk", the data access would be shutdown immediately, and it would stay shutdown until the risk was remediated. Instead, when there was pushback, the shutdown was postponed. That's not how anybody deals with a cybersecurity risk.