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Nowadays sure. What about shortly after launch? Say you’re the USSR and want to quietly piss in NASA’s cornflakes. Or hell, say you’re Putin—today—and want to
by stouset 4y ago
Nowadays sure. What about shortly after launch?
Say you’re the USSR and want to quietly piss in NASA’s cornflakes. Or hell, say you’re Putin—today—and want to do the same thing. Could you?
- kadoban 4y agoShortly after launch it was almost certainly not known how communication worked. And if you had a spy that could get you that info, you could just get them to press the wrong button(s) instead.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agoGot a Time Machine?
- midoridensha 4y agoPutin has limited resources. He'd rather spend them on his stupid war, and also building other weapons and warships, rather than a giant radio antenna and a team of engineers trying to hack a 45-year-old spacecraft's communications protocol, just to screw with NASA.
- stouset 4y agoI’m asking about the technical measures used to authenticate commands to these probes. The bit about Putin was just about framing the question.
- midoridensha 4y agoSome random hobbyists (or even small nation-states) aren't going to be able to build a radio antenna large enough to communicate with deep-space probes like that. That's all the "technical measures" needed.