NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

      • andrewEnglish
        8•2 months ago

        Actually it’s Admin47 now because of the yearly password change requirement.

    • @Lightborne@lemmy.world
      6•2 months ago

      I would guess not. Any authentication scheme would just be another risk point to not be able to talk to the thing from earth.

      But I’m just guessing.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          0•2 months ago

          That’s actually a good point. However, the technology and conceptual understanding of encryption was not really a thing in 1970

          Sure encryption was around but it was mostly people with code books

    • downpunxx
      4•2 months ago

      when these were launched in the 70’s authentication wasn’t a concern, getting it up, and reporting back was