CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up1187arrow-down1message-squareNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 months agoI would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
minus-squareNeptuneOrbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·7 months agoThe ultimate security by obscurity. Do you have a 30m antenna? Can you point it exactly at the space ship with almost no error? Do you know what it’s code and protocols are? OK, please reprogram Voyager
minus-squareCRUMBGRABBER@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·7 months agoStick with the plan.
minus-squareKbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 months agoOP says reprogram all of the satellites. So I would assume that would include the modern ones with encryption as well.
minus-squareCRUMBGRABBER@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·7 months agoI cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoCall the FBI! We found the alien!
minus-squaresubignition@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoI would hope there is at least authentication of some kind…
minus-squareandrew@lemmy.stuart.funlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoActually it’s Admin47 now because of the yearly password change requirement.
minus-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoI would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth. But I’m just guessing.
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-27 months agoI wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoThat’s actually a good point. However, the technology and conceptual understanding of encryption was not really a thing in 1970 Sure encryption was around but it was mostly people with code books
I would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
The ultimate security by obscurity. Do you have a 30m antenna? Can you point it exactly at the space ship with almost no error? Do you know what it’s code and protocols are? OK, please reprogram Voyager
Stick with the plan.
OP says reprogram all of the satellites. So I would assume that would include the modern ones with encryption as well.
I cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
Call the FBI! We found the alien!
I would hope there is at least authentication of some kind…
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Actually it’s Admin47 now because of the yearly password change requirement.
I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.
But I’m just guessing.
I wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.
That’s actually a good point. However, the technology and conceptual understanding of encryption was not really a thing in 1970
Sure encryption was around but it was mostly people with code books
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It is from the 1970’s