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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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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago

Probably not all of them. The Voyager probes were launched in the 70s and they don't exactly need much encryption because they can only be programmed by someone with a massive transmitter.