• FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I wonder how it is secured, or could anyone with a big enough transmitter reprogram it at will…

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Its partially because there is only one set of antennas large enough to communicate with it, and that’s only sometimes. Its called the Deep space network and it is very secure because it’s used for many things, not just communicating with the Voyager probes.

      Second, you’d have to have very very intimate knowledge of the hardware, and programming language to even begin to hack it. And the people who do have that knowledge are very very passionate about their probes.

      So I guess technically the answer is yes. But practically, no.

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      10 months ago

      I think the security is adequately managed by the need for a massive transmitter as well as the question “what is there to gain via a hostile takeover and re-programming the probe?”

      I bet there’s actual security of some kind going on, but those two points seem like a massive hurdle to clear just to mess with a deep space probe.