یکی از فعالان داخل ایران از من خواست که خبررسانی کنم که افرادی که از استارلینک استفاده می‌کنند، در شرایط فعلی و به‌ویژه در مناطقی که برف آمده، حتماً قابلیت «برف‌آب‌کن» دستگاه استارلینک را خاموش کنند. عکس بخش تنظیمات را اینجا گذاشتم. فعال بودن این قابلیت «برف آب کنی» باعث داغ شدن بیش از حد دستگاه می‌شود و در نتیجه میزان انتشار امواج مادون‌قرمز را افزایش می‌دهد؛ موضوعی که شناسایی آن توسط پهپادهای مجهز به دوربین مادون‌قرمز را آسان‌تر می‌کند. همچنین اضافه می‌کنم که دستگاه استارلینک نباید بدون پوشش و به‌صورت کاملاً آشکار روی پشت‌بام نصب شود. البته باید توجه داشت که پوشش کاملا مشکل شناسایی مانع توسط پهپادهای دارای دوربین مادون‌قرمز را رفع نمیکند. نکته مهم دیگر این است که دوربین‌های مادون‌قرمز در شب کارایی بالاتری دارند؛ بنابراین اگر امکان‌پذیر است، بهتر است دستگاه در ساعات شب خاموش شود.

From NYT article reported by @NatallieRocha: Users of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service in Iran were able to use the service for free on Tuesday, according to U.S.-based organizations that work on international technology issues. Starlink’s parent company, the rocket maker SpaceX, waived fees for the service on Tuesday morning, said Ahmad Ahmadian, the executive director of Holistic Resilience, a nonprofit that helps Iranians get access to the web. He said people in Iran had told him that they did not have to pay Starlink to get online, amid a near-total communications blackout in the country as it grapples with mass protests. Mehdi Yahyanejad, a co-founder of NetFreedom Pioneers, a U.S.-based tech nonprofit, said a person he works with in Iran had also connected to the internet using Starlink for free on Tuesday. The person tested the free access by turning on an unused Starlink device, he said. nytimes.com/2026/01/13/techn…

My quotes in the AP article: While the connectivity offered by Starlink played a role in the Amini demonstrations, the deployment of its receivers is now far greater in Iran. That’s despite the government never authorizing Starlink to function, making the service illegal to possess and use. A year ago, an Iranian official estimated tens of thousands of Starlink receivers in the Islamic Republic, a figure that Los Angeles-based internet freedom activist Mehdi Yahyanejad said sounded right. While many receivers likely are in the hands of business people and others wanting to stay in touch with the outside world for their livelihoods, Yahyanejad said some are now being used to share videos, photos and other reporting on the protests. “In this case, because all those things have been disrupted, Starlink is playing the key for getting all these videos out,” Yahyanejad said. Help ‘needs to come soon’ It appears that the majority of information coming out of Iran since Thursday night is being transmitted via Starlink, which is now illegal. That carries dangers for those possessing the devices. “It’s really hard to use it because if they arrest a person, they can execute the person and say this person is working for Israel or the United States,” Jangravi said. Not using it, however, means the world knows even less about what’s happening inside Iran at a pivotal moment. “This sort of nonviolent protest is not sustainable when the violence (by security forces) is so extreme,” Yahyanejad said. “Unless something changes in the next two or three days, these protests can die down, too. If there’s any help, it needs to come soon.” apnews.com/article/iran-prot…

اگر در سالهای گذشته استارلینکی بعنوان هدیه دریافت کردید و فرستنده را نمیشناسید و اکانت رو ندارید، با بخش خدمات استارلینک تماس بگیرید و این نوشته زیر را بفرستید. یادتان نره XXX را با شماره سریال دستگاهتان عوض کنید. لینک بخش خدمات استارلینک در پایین صفحه‌ای که اینجا که گذاشتم هست. باید برید اونجا که گفته Contact us. Hello, I received a Starlink terminal as a donation from activist groups outside my country. The serial number is XXX. I do not have access to the main account and the terminal has stopped working. Could you please transfer account to me. Thank you starlink.com/support?srsltid…