From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Mar 02 1999 - 20:16:06 MST
Randall Randall wrote:
> >> Hackers Reportedly Seize British Military Satellite
> >> LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers have seized control of one of Britain's
> >That means the hackers took over the attitude control system and
> >the orbit adjust system? I think not. spike
>
> Eh? Surely the military computers on the ground can do this, no?
> If not, why not, and if so, why is it unbelievable that (given that they
> cracked the system) they'd not be able to use them?
because military satellites (and any other satellites for that matter) are
so complicated to control, even assuming a standing army of dedicated
professionals, jillions of dollars worth of specialized computer hardware
and software, reams of documentation, not to mention specialized codes
to prevent exactly that sort of thing. After having been part of that
process, I would sooner believe a group of miscreants erected a
tall skyscraper without anyone noticing as kidnapping a satellite. spike
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