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1. You can hack into the DSN, and try to do it that way. 2. Set up an 80-meter dish in your back yard, with a team of NASA RF experts. With step (2), the auth
by vbtemp 14y ago
1. You can hack into the DSN, and try to do it that way.
2. Set up an 80-meter dish in your back yard, with a team of NASA RF experts.
With step (2), the authorities will zero in on you in a second, so the emphasis is definitely on the cyber security of the ground infrastructure and not on SSL-over-space-link-communication.
- vladd 14y ago(2): there are plenty of third world countries or foreign government agencies where placing a 80-meter dish is not a problem. Although the process seems a bit intimidating - http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/features/dsnbuilt1.html http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/features/dsnbuilt1.html
- vbtemp 14y agoNot just assembling the dish - you also have to know the ephemeris schedule, bit coding scheme (it changes based on circumstances), packet formats, software infrastructure... In the great scheme of things, my friend, Cuba or Zimbabwe secretly erecting an 80 meter dish just to f--k with a rover on mars isn't really a concern. Even though ESA or China or Japan might conceivably have the theoretical capability to do this... there are other things to worry about.
- stephengillie 14y agoThey could just DOS it by blasting it with white noise.