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Makes you wonder if there is encryption on the uplinks for the first batch and how quickly they will be hacked. Remember how they didn't have encryption for ye
by ck2 3y ago
Makes you wonder if there is encryption on the uplinks for the first batch and how quickly they will be hacked.
Remember how they didn't have encryption for years on the UAVs during the Iraq War and Afghanistan?
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/ https://www.wired.com/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/
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- cfraenkel 3y agoOf course the command and control uplink is encrypted. Always have been. All military satellite tt&c uplinks are encrypted. (Commercial as well, almost certainly, I just don't have personal knowledge.)
- lxgr 3y agoExactly – otherwise, somebody would have most likely already deorbited them or disrupted them in some other way. Even amateur satellites are allowed to use encryption for TT&C – a rare exception in (at least US) regulations that otherwise ban all form of encryption.
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