[82828] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hack the Mars rover (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Sun Jul 6 15:29:36 1997
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 06 Jul 1997 11:11:48 CDT.
<199707061611.LAA18434@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 12:01:54 -0700
Reply-To: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
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
