Hack the Mars rover (fwd)
Paul Pomes
ppomes at qualcomm.com
Sun Jul 6 12:12:00 PDT 1997
At 11:11 CDT on Sunday, July 6, 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
|The place to attack is the up-link. This requires physical access (ie a van
|with a dish and xmtr.) as well as a means to crack the encryption on the
|control channels. At least one French satellite has been cracked and
|de-orbited via a network attack.
The encryption for US-made satellites is supplied by the NSA. Cracking the
encryption is much easier said than done. Is there a cite for the French
incident?
/pbp
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