minus-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.linkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoI 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareLightborne@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.linkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 months agoI would doubt they would have encrypted anything on the probe back in 1977 when it launched. linkfedilink
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.