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Software in space gets upgraded; the base stations the satellites communicate with can be compromised; you have to trust that the builders didn't include any ba
by stickfigure 5y ago
Software in space gets upgraded; the base stations the satellites communicate with can be compromised; you have to trust that the builders didn't include any backdoors or unexpected behavior (deliberately or accidentally).
Seems like this has all the same problems as the earth option, but is more expensive.
- gojomo 5y agoIt only gets upgraded if it was designed to be so upgraded, which adds cost/complexity. If you don't manage your backdoor before the probe leaves human hands, you can't add it later. And, other mechanisms (some described in sibling threads) can help drive the risk of a backdoor very low, & the liklihood of any compromise being widely revealed (if ever exploited) very high.