[82857] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hack the Mars rover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Mon Jul 7 13:40:08 1997
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:55:40 -0400 (edt)
From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
To: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <33C13960.7AAF@acm.org>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
> The appropriate question is how much encryption (and other security) is
> needed if interrupting the traffic causes the loss of a great deal of
> money and difficult (if possible at all) fixes. This is the mindset of
> the Fed security wienies when specifying and designing; thus it must be
> the mindset of the non-Fed Wienie looking to crack.
Well, if it matters any, my initial impression was that this discussion
was based upon taking over the rover, not necessarily upon just performing
a DoS attack on it. Frankly, I can't see a point to a DoS attack...
taking it over, on the other hand could be fun..
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