CRUMBGRABBER to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.message-square50fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.CRUMBGRABBER to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Kbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 months agoThis is assuming that they would know and understand the code. Also, that nothing is encrypted but I guess encryption can be broken.
minus-square@Lightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 months agoI would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
minus-squaresubignitionlinkfedilink0•6 months agoI would hope there is at least authentication of some kind…
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minus-squaredownpunxxlinkfedilink0•6 months agowhen these were launched in the 70’s authentication wasn’t a concern, getting it up, and reporting back was
minus-square@Lightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 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-square@dfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilink0•edit-26 months agoI wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-26 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
minus-square@NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 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-square@Kbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 months agoOP says reprogram all of the satellites. So I would assume that would include the modern ones with encryption as well.
minus-squareCRUMBGRABBEROPlinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoI cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
This is assuming that they would know and understand the code. Also, that nothing is encrypted but I guess encryption can be broken.
I would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
I would hope there is at least authentication of some kind…
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when these were launched in the 70’s authentication wasn’t a concern, getting it up, and reporting back was
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
It is from the 1970’s
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!