At 03:13 PM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote:

Space war already exists. Laser blinding and buckets of BB's will wipe out a satelite quite nicely.

You're thinking too crudely. Imagine, if you will, being able to control the downlink content of such a spacecraft. Analogous to finding an eavesdropping device in your office. Much better to feed it false information than shut it off.

Making it look like an accident is going to be harder, but I bet that's coming too.

Already been done, at least to comsats. Cheers, Dan