CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareNASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
minus-squareNeptuneOrbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoStick with the plan.
minus-squareKbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoI cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
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.