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Bob Haller
11-15-02, 05:03 AM
See this
http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3403090,00.html

119 highjacked?

I see why they are concerned. Picture a progress resupply satellte about to dock with ISS. Terrorist sends it command causing a collision. Kills crew and station which is uncontrollable if depressurized begins a one year death watch as it spirals in to a firery de orbit perhaps coming down on someones head.

The command and control equipotement on ISS depends on the station atmosphere for cooling. N atmosphere? No cooling or control. NOT a good design but it saved devlopment money.

cnsf
11-18-02, 03:08 PM
how about reprogramming GPS satellites to show Baghdad as the White House? Scary thought.....you'd think the sats would be flexible enough to accept new OS downloads that include encryption keys. Interstellar PKI....cool.....