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-square19fedilinkarrow-up15file-text
arrow-up15message-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-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 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-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
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-up0·2 months agoI cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoCall the FBI! We found the alien!
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
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.
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!
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.