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Voyager 1 (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Yes if they can track them in middle of space.

It's impressive that we can still send data to the satellite. I mean you need to send the signal to the place where the satellite will be in 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 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 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Suspect #1:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Voyager is a boomer and could more easily be phished

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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

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