NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
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This is assuming that they would know and understand the code. Also, that nothing is encrypted but I guess encryption can be broken.
I would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched.
The ultimate security by obscurity. Do you have a 30m antenna? Can you point it exactly at the space ship with almost no error? Do you know what it's code and protocols are? OK, please reprogram Voyager
Stick with the plan.
OP says reprogram all of the satellites. So I would assume that would include the modern ones with encryption as well.
I cannot confirm or deny any such arrangement exists with an existing alien species.
Call the FBI! We found the alien!
I would hope there is at least authentication of some kind...
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I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.
But I'm just guessing.
I wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.
That's actually a good point. However, the technology and conceptual understanding of encryption was not really a thing in 1970
Sure encryption was around but it was mostly people with code books
when these were launched in the 70's authentication wasn't a concern, getting it up, and reporting back was
It is from the 1970's
Also, that nothing is encrypted but I guess encryption can be broken.
Our way of encrypting things is incredibly basic. We are basically just asking like a toddler: What number am I thinking of? If you guess correctly, congratulation you broke the encryption.
A civilisation just a few decades ahead of us will have no problem breaking even the most modern encryptions. Any advanced Alien race, will look at our way of encryption, like we look at the Caesar-Chiffre or the Enigma-Machine today. Clever for it's time, but no real hurdle for a modern code breaker.