Just to clear up any confusion: I don't advocate interfering with the Mars probe in any way. As always, my interest in purely academic. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
Lucky Green wrote:
Yes, the idea was to take over the rover. A DoS would be an extremely idiotic thing to do. Of course so would be damaging the rover. But a little cruise... :-)
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but taking someone's toy away -- even just for awhile -- IS Denial of Service. And, yes, 'twould be a Blast to go joyriding.
PHM
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ryan Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
The appropriate question is how much encryption (and other security) is needed if interrupting the traffic causes the loss of a great deal of money and difficult (if possible at all) fixes. This is the mindset of the Fed security wienies when specifying and designing; thus it must be the mindset of the non-Fed Wienie looking to crack.
Well, if it matters any, my initial impression was that this discussion was based upon taking over the rover, not necessarily upon just performing a DoS attack on it. Frankly, I can't see a point to a DoS attack... taking it over, on the other hand could be fun..
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