From: Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 1999 - 06:09:29 MST
I read yesterday on ZDNET (another fount of objective reporting ;) )
that the story is a hoax. The british came out and said it never
happened and that hijacking a satelite is quite impossible.
Who to believe? :)
My original question should have been, "Are stories such as satelites
being hijacked (as reported in 'main stream media') of interest to
Extropians, or are they kooky?
---Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
>
> Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Well, I did get the story off of yahoo news. And I think CNN news
> > reported it yesterday. I make no claim to it's truthfulness.
> > Perhaps, if this is bogus, it should be of interest to us that so
many
> > "respected" news organizations picked it up...
>
> Remember the British Telecom "SoulCatcher 2000" chip? Two summers
> back, it went all the way around the media, and still crops up (now
> usually promoted by some paranoid schizophrenic). The real story was
> that BT had held a seminar about future technology, and in the end
> speculated a bit about uploading and neurointerfaces. Some less than
> brilliant reporter mis-reported it, and news organisation after news
> organization copied each other.
>
>
> I agree with those sceptical about the satelite story. It seems a bit
> too much like a Hollywood movie to be true, but the memetic potential
> is good - we have been conditioned by a lot of fiction to believe in
> this sort of thing.
>
> Can crackers get into a satelite? I think they can, even if it is hard
> to judge how likely it is. Can they make sense of the guidance system?
> That definitely requires good knowledge about space technology and the
> ideosynchracies of the satelite in question - a much taller order. My
> guess is that if the story is true, then it is an insider job.
>
> --
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