"Satellites to challenge Pentagon Spin"

[Dan Veeneman]

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