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Putin 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 te
by midoridensha 4y ago
Putin 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.