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Voyager 1 (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SWEs have new standards now, and i think we should hold them to it. Considering how shit most modern websites are these days. I think it's only going to be beneficial.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Say that to corporate. I'm perfectly willing (eager, even) to write actually good software, but I'm forced to work within a budget and on top of the pile of despair we call "tech stack". Everything is about 20 orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be, nobody has time to do anything properly and everything is always kind of burning.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

**This also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. **

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, it doesn't. Commands could be authenticated using a pre-shared secret. Even public cryptography existed prior to Voyager 1's launch (by a year).

Based on the state of computer security at that time I would guess that's unlikely, but then again it was the Cold War.

Anyway, just because it is possible it doesn't mean anyone can do it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

If they had a way to affect our technology in a meaningful way at interstellar distances we can assume their understanding of mathematics is significantly more advanced than ours.

If their understand of mathematics is that much more advanced we can assume that their knowledge of cryptography is also much more advanced.

They'd probably be able to crack our encryption fairly easily.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Let's hope the over-the-air update didn't get Man-In-The-Middled...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Suspect #1:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

And the IT support service can't even fix a computer problem of an customer 20 km away.

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