Showing posts with label hackers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hackers. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Nasa lost control of two satellites to Chinese hackers


11 minute is a long time in rocket science, you can change a lot of things in 11 minutes, least of which is the trajectory of a satellite, making it completely useless.

I wonder ifour atellites are at risk of being hijacked by hackers and...

If satellites can be remotely controlled by hackers, what about planes with fly by wire that are constantly communicating with their home base? can they be remotely hijacked as well?

Read the story after the jump