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

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn’t be so sure. They were probably scared the Russians might sabotage it.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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