Re: Hack the Mars rover

[Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>]

Yes, the idea was to take over the rover. A DoS would be an extremely 
idiotic thing to do. Of course so would be damaging the rover. But a 
little cruise... :-)

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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ryan Anderson wrote:

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