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Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'
- grantwest 8mo agoThe real headline here is “Anyone can control Europe’s key satellites because they didn’t bother to put encryption on billions of dollars worth of critical infrastructure”
- direwolf20 8mo agoUS satellites are the same
- 4d4m 8mo agophones and their baseband radios too :)
- direwolf20 8mo agoand their wifi radios and Bluetooth radios and touchscreen controllers using TEMPEST
- 4d4m 8mo agoYes!!
- lovegrenoble 8mo ago[flagged]
- krige 8mo agoExtremely easy to convince population that state X is an evil, looming threat if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end. Russia could have stopped at any moment. Can still stop at any moment. They could have single-handedly undermined Europe's trust in the States, years before the orange-in-charge did, merely by not starting an invasion. Their choice. Their FA, now they FO.
- lovegrenoble 8mo ago>> if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end. This sounds like a description of the United States to me...
- OKRainbowKid 8mo agoWhataboutism and deflection, the favorite tool of Kremlin apologists.
- lovegrenoble 8mo agoBien sur!
- polotics 8mo agoHello lovegrenoble. Are you in Grenoble we could organise a meetup maybe?
- krige 8mo agoAh, the good ol "And you are lynching N-----s!" defense. Supremely topical for discussing Russia's dickery.
- mrguyorama 8mo agoHow does the US being shitty justify a Russian invasion of their sovereign neighbor?
- justsomehnguy 8mo agoEveryone knows they are evil. Not that many states out there fly to other side of the planet to bomb someone irrelevant or outright kidnap president of the country they are not even have a boarder with.
- phplovesong 8mo agoRussia is a terrorist state. Nothing more, nothing less.
- lovegrenoble 8mo ago[flagged]
- polotics 8mo agoInteresting. A Russian speaking Kharkov ex-resident i heard recently would like an interview with you, can you post your contact details?
- goodmythical 8mo agoSo is [insert list of commonly recognized nations]. What's your point?
- toss1 8mo agoTBF, Russia does have something more. It is a terrorist state with a gas station
- direwolf20 8mo agoThat's clever. Normally you can't intercept satellite uplinks because they're pointed at the satellite. But if you have your own, highly manoeuvrable satellite...
- Havoc 8mo ago“Sensitive” satellites have unencrypted command channels?!?! Even with narrow transmission angle that seems like a bold strategy Encoding sensitive message is a thing since dark ages
- lxgr 8mo agoYes, this is pretty standard, even in military contexts. For example, military aircraft ACARS communications are often entirely in plaintext, and don't forget the famous "Predator drone video feed intercepted via $26 software" incident: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126102247889095011 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126102247889095011 However, that's only the data they forward, and this can be more or less trivially fixed at several layers, since many of these communication satellites are just "bent pipes" that often don't even digitally demodulate what they receive before frequency-shifting and rebroadcasting it. Authentication is a bit more challenging; interesting things can happen even when traffic itself is encrypted, such as Brazilean truckers using your expensive military communications satellite as a football chat room: https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/ https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/ Beyond payload encryption/authentication, satellite operational commands (e.g. engine and inertia wheel control, power management etc.) should have been encrypted for decades, though (and are one of the few explicitly carved out exemptions to otherwise strict "no encryption on amateur radio bands" regulations), so these claims about "software kill commands" seems very worrying.
- arethuza 8mo agoDuring the Falklands War some of the UK's European allies intercepted transmissions from Soviet spy satellites that allowed the location of the Argentinian fleet to be identified - this information was passed to the UK.
- mrguyorama 8mo agoIs this true or is this the way the US passed intel to the UK against their nominal ally?
- NedF 8mo ago[dead]
- JohnnyLarue 8mo ago[dead]