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I believe the ISS intermittently hosts a website. I would certainly imagine there is some space-based website with long ping times.
by HWR_14 4y ago
I believe the ISS intermittently hosts a website. I would certainly imagine there is some space-based website with long ping times.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoHow funny would it be if someone 0day'd the ISS because of some XSS bug on a 1995-tier homepage?
- HWR_14 4y agoI'm sure the ISS's public facing comms (I believe they host a public HAM repeater as well) are isolated. Also, there's no reason that something added well after Twitter (the first ISS direct communication was a tweet - before that tweets were related through a ground station) would be done in an obsolete way. But lastly, unless they're hosting a forum, XSS is kinda irrelevant and 1995 predates XSS issues (and for most of the year JS)
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoDaily self-reminder to never post jokes on HN.
- TylerE 4y agoPing time to ISS would not be bad at all. Worse case it would be like talking to a server in Australia plus a bit
- HWR_14 4y agoI mean, talking to a server in Australia as the ground station, and having it launch a signal to and from the ISS (the "a bit") works. But it's connecting via some listening post like in Alice Springs, not a data center in Sydney, so you have to wonder about Australias internal internet service.
- Handytinge 4y agoI doubt that. Talking to servers in Australia takes me 1-40ms. Of course, I am in Australia.
- adrianmonk 4y agoDoes the ISS fit within the definition of "the world's"? It's outside the atmosphere, so maybe not. But it's in orbit, so maybe so.