Mars Spirit Rover Hack

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."

God! You have got to have a warped mind to even think of something like
that. Hopefully there are not too many like you!

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"Cotton Spandey" wrote in message
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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."

Sounds like a whole lot of tun to me :-)

Kev

"Richard Urban" wrote in message
...
God! You have got to have a warped mind to even think of something like
that. Hopefully there are not too many like you!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"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?


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

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?

And you would want to do this because??

Dat's Me wrote:
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?


And you would want to do this because??


It would make us Brits feel better about Beagle 2 being stuck on its
side at the bottom of a crater, or whatever it is they think has
happened to it. :-)

Andrew
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I am not a lawyer, nor am I SPEWS, nor do I speak for anyone other than
myself.

"Cotton Spandey" wrote in
:

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."

Do you plan to write a song about it? If so, good luck. If not, why did you
crosspost this to a songwriting newsgroup?

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Maybe 'because its there' is a reason that may be given to hack it.

"AndrewR" wrote in message
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Dat's Me wrote:
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?


And you would want to do this because??


It would make us Brits feel better about Beagle 2 being stuck on its
side at the bottom of a crater, or whatever it is they think has
happened to it. :-)

Andrew
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"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain,
at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?" -
Bertrand Russell
"...the police had unconstrained power to treat everyone in London as a
terrorist, and stop, search and hold them without cause or reasonable
suspicion." -
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comme...071346,00.html
I am not a lawyer, nor am I SPEWS, nor do I speak for anyone other than
myself.

Plonked due to excessive/inappropriate crossposting.

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:29:35 +1000, "Dat's Me"
wrote:

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?

And you would want to do this because??

I have no interest in doing it, I just hope that NASA and JPL have
considered it and that it is very, very difficult.

But if you're talking about hacking, why go through ground networks?
Why not transmit directly to the Spirit from a ground antenna?



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not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:39:07 +0000, AndrewR wrote:

It would make us Brits feel better about Beagle 2 being stuck on its
side at the bottom of a crater, or whatever it is they think has
happened to it. :-)

Beagle got there on a ludicrously small budget, with impossible weight
limits and an impossibly short development time.

yes, the doggie appears to be dead, If NASA could do half as well as
Beagle did, there'd be less screaming about their budget.

....speaking of which, the latest announced plans pretty much kill
everything except manned missions. While I'd like to see those too,
there's a lot of good fundamental science about to be thrown out the
window for political ends.

Beagle got there on a ludicrously small budget, with impossible weight
limits and an impossibly short development time.

yes, the doggie appears to be dead, If NASA could do half as well as
Beagle did, there'd be less screaming about their budget.

They should lose three or 4 cheap units to improve their image?

"Uncle StoatWarbler" waxed rhapsodic in
news
Beagle got there on a ludicrously small budget, with impossible weight
limits and an impossibly short development time.

"okay! the clouds parted! i see mars!

"get ready...

"FIRE!!"

seriously, though. the u.s. lost one over martian airspace, as well, no?
they're probably hanging out together on phobos, snickering, playing hearts
for windos, and downloading porn.

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Of course the hack would be directly to the Spirit from a ground antenna.


"Steven M (remove wax for reply)" wrote in
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:29:35 +1000, "Dat's Me"
wrote:

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?

And you would want to do this because??

I have no interest in doing it, I just hope that NASA and JPL have
considered it and that it is very, very difficult.

But if you're talking about hacking, why go through ground networks?
Why not transmit directly to the Spirit from a ground antenna?



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Steve M - (remove wax for reply)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear;
not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain

"Richard Urban" wrote in message ...
God! You have got to have a warped mind to even think of something like
that. Hopefully there are not too many like you!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"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?


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




Wait for it about a week. I'll bet the tire tracks from space spell out RALSKY.

Thane
aka Woody Bonker
Not a Member of the Lumber Cartel
(TINLC)

On 18 Jan 2004 10:57:53 -0800, Thane wrote:

"Richard Urban" wrote in message ...
God! You have got to have a warped mind to even think of something like
that. Hopefully there are not too many like you!

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Regards:
No, they will hack it on mars and soon we will be getting spammed with:
"Beautiful martian women for you."

and

"My planet was taken over by moon creatures, and I have hidden, but I
need your help to get my gold off the planet."

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