Mars Spirit Rover Hack

On 20 Jan 2004 10:51:06 -0800, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

} Wm James wrote in message . ..
} On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:46:12 -0700, "Cotton Spandey"
} wrote:
}
} I know nothing about hacking, but how easy would it be for someone besides
} me to hack into the Spirit on Mars and cause it to tip over?
}
}
} "Please, send in every dollar you can to send George to Mars."
}
} Likely simple as not many bothered to consider that a risk, I bet.
} However, you might spend years trying various frequencies and codes,
} and that would exceed the device's life span many times over, and you
} would need equipment which I doubt you have to transmit and receive
} the signals.
}
}
} A couple of years ago the Falung Gon hacked into and took over a
} Chinese communication satellite. They controlled it for about a
} WEEK!

You have only the Chinese goobermint's word that's who did it.
That'd be like us accusing the Scientologists of doing so.
Not bloody likely.

My money says the Chinese staged it.

On 20 Jan 2004 10:51:06 -0800, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

Wm James wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:46:12 -0700, "Cotton Spandey"
wrote:

I know nothing about hacking, but how easy would it be for someone besides
me to hack into the Spirit on Mars and cause it to tip over?


"Please, send in every dollar you can to send George to Mars."

Likely simple as not many bothered to consider that a risk, I bet.
However, you might spend years trying various frequencies and codes,
and that would exceed the device's life span many times over, and you
would need equipment which I doubt you have to transmit and receive
the signals.


A couple of years ago the Falung Gon hacked into and took over a
Chinese communication satellite. They controlled it for about a
WEEK!

How long did it take? And did they have inside info?

William R. James

Doktor DynaSoar wrote in message . ..
On 20 Jan 2004 10:51:06 -0800, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

}
} A couple of years ago the Falung Gon hacked into and took over a
} Chinese communication satellite. They controlled it for about a
} WEEK!

You have only the Chinese goobermint's word that's who did it.

Actaully I have only the word of the Western News Agencies whose report
I read, I do not even know what their source(s) were.

That'd be like us accusing the Scientologists of doing so.
Not bloody likely.

My money says the Chinese staged it.


You make a good point.

Thanks.

"Cotton Spandey" wrote in message ...
I know nothing about hacking, but how easy would it be for someone besides
me to hack into the Spirit on Mars and cause it to tip over?


folk's at jpl are on hunt ...

it's worth weeks o work ..

it'd better not be you .

"Cotton Spandey" wrote in message ...
I know nothing about hacking, but how easy would it be for someone besides
me to hack into the Spirit on Mars and cause it to tip over?


folk's at jpl are on hunt ...

it's worth weeks o work ..

it'd better not be you .

In (news.admin.net-abuse.email), Paul Vader wrote:
(Paul Vader) writes:
Mars is 60 times further away. The square cube law is not your friend.

Er, make that more than 140 times further. Amusingly, I mixed my units. *

I'm trying to figure out how the square cube law, ordinarily used in
estimating bone diameter from a critter's mass, is related to inverse-
square propagation of radio waves.

--
Offhand, I'd say you need to clean your guns in front of your CPU salesman.
-- Matthew Stitt, in bit.listserv.ibm-main

On 20 Jan 2004 22:47:54 -0800, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

} Doktor DynaSoar wrote in message . ..
} On 20 Jan 2004 10:51:06 -0800, (Fred the Red
} Shirt) wrote:
}
} }
} } A couple of years ago the Falung Gon hacked into and took over a
} } Chinese communication satellite. They controlled it for about a
} } WEEK!
}
} You have only the Chinese goobermint's word that's who did it.
}
} Actaully I have only the word of the Western News Agencies whose report
} I read, I do not even know what their source(s) were.

Chinese news agencies.

That = Chinese goobermint.

i hope nobody hacked into the rover today!

"Doktor DynaSoar" wrote in message
...
On 20 Jan 2004 22:47:54 -0800, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

} Doktor DynaSoar wrote in message
. ..
} On 20 Jan 2004 10:51:06 -0800, (Fred the Red
} Shirt) wrote:
}
} }
} } A couple of years ago the Falung Gon hacked into and took over a
} } Chinese communication satellite. They controlled it for about a
} } WEEK!
}
} You have only the Chinese goobermint's word that's who did it.
}
} Actaully I have only the word of the Western News Agencies whose report
} I read, I do not even know what their source(s) were.

Chinese news agencies.

That = Chinese goobermint.