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NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I would hope there is at least authentication of some kind...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Actually it's Admin47 now because of the yearly password change requirement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It is from the 1970's