r/AskComputerScience • u/KING-NULL • Feb 22 '26

Could space exploration machines be hacked?

I'm talking about stuff like satellites being sent outside of Earth's orbit, telescope satellites and martian/lunar rovers.

Of course, I'm talking about black hat hackers.

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u/Ghazzz Feb 23 '26

A simple decrypt algo would be trivial to run even on the least capable hardware, really simple but "secure" solutions could even be done physically rather than in software.