Comment on Voyager 1

FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• FlatFootFox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Modern satellites are protected by various means of encryption, but there’s an enthusiast community that tracks down and communicates with zombie satellites. There’s even been an NGO which managed to fire rockets on an abandoned NASA/ESA probe before (with their approval.)

  The Voyagers benefit primarily from the lack of groups with an adequate deep space network to communicate with it. They’re otherwise completely open and well documented.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Yeah, I always leave my car unlocked with the keys inside. I also always park it in the center of a lake.”

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More like, below the lake.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for that link, cool stuff!

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨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.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what is there to gain via a hostile takeover and re-programming the probe

    “We did it for the lulz”.

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    • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They get doom to run on it.

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      • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine playing with a 22 hour delay on frames.

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• bosco@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You may be interested in learning about it’s downlink: destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/

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• loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol.

  Why is it only sending back dickbutt memes?

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