Re: Hack the Mars rover

[Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:

> The appropriate question is how much encryption (and other security) is
> needed if interrupting the traffic causes the loss of a great deal of
> money and difficult (if possible at all) fixes.  This is the mindset of
> the Fed security wienies when specifying and designing; thus it must be
> the mindset of the non-Fed Wienie looking to crack.

Well, if it matters any, my initial impression was that this discussion
was based upon taking over the rover, not necessarily upon just performing
a DoS attack on it.  Frankly, I can't see a point to a DoS attack...
taking it over, on the other hand could be fun..

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