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

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By extension that means we can also reprogram alien satellites and probes. So why aren't we??

[–] radix@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually in ID4 there was an explanation. Basically all of humanity's computer tech came from reverse engineering alien tech. So our computers worked with theirs because they were based on theirs. Maybe this isn't this best logic, but they did at least have an in universe explanation.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah. That makes sense

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We haven't mastered SSH authentication via psionic tendrils

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Look at this human still using SSH. I bet they still process on old PCs instead of PC2’s

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

I SSH authenticate stuff via my psionic tendril all the time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)