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Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover?
MrSeb writes "NASA's Curiosity rover has now been on the surface of Mars for just over a week. It hasn't moved an inch after landing, instead focusing on orienting itself (and NASA's scientists) by taking instrument readings and snapping images of its surroundings. The first beautiful full-color images of Gale Crater are starting to trickle in, and NASA has already picked out some interesting rock formations that it will investigate further in the next few days. Over the weekend and continuing throughout today, however, Curiosity is attempting something very risky indeed: A firmware upgrade. This got me thinking: If NASA can transmit new software to a Mars rover that's hundreds of millions of miles away... why can't a hacker do the same thing? In short, there's no reason a hacker couldn't take control of Curiosity, or lock NASA out. All you would need is your own massive 230-foot dish antenna and a 400-kilowatt transmitter — or, perhaps more realistically, you could hack into NASA's computer systems, which is exactly what Chinese hackers did 13 times in 2011."
Hackers hate challenges.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Does anyone know A)where Curiosity was born B)Curiosity's childhood pet C)Curiosity's mother's maiden name?
Curiosity no longer responds after firmware update
Using Hubble Telescope the only image they can see on top of the Rover is this image: http://agilemobility.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/stuck_on_activate_my_iphone_screen21.jpg
All you would need is your own massive 230-foot dish antenna and a 400-kilowatt transmitter
In that case, yes. Yes, I could.
I've already configured my system to use Curiosity as anonymous proxy. They will never find me.
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Privacy is terrorism.
Good thing they're not provisioned by AT&T or Comcast, otherwise NASA would have to contend with artificial bandwidth caps. ;)
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Silly AC. All you have to do is: ssh root@curiosity.marsrover.jpl.nasa.gov The password is hunter2
I really wanted to change my sig to something witty, but all I could come up with is this.
They are switching OS from DOS to handle the landing to BSD to handle the roving. They were too cheap to buy extra storage to have both at the same time.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
+++ATDT what was the country code for mars again?
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They will be fine, as long as the Curiosity Rover has the iPhone IOS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't_stuff_beans_up_your_nose
You sir, are a hero.
.. they reprogrammed the Voyager 2 spacecraft to take photos of poorly-lit Uranus.
Couldn't they have just turned on the lights in the bathroom?
(Face it, you knew an ass joke was imminent.)
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You're all wrong. It's "Bull sigh" because that's the sound a bull makes when you get pedantic on the internet.
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
The password is hunter2
You need to use the /cleartext command. All I see is *******.
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
I bricked my routeeeeeeer, but I did not brick curiosity!
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It was running android, but all the crapware couldnt be uninstalled and it was hard to see much with the ad banners on the top and bottom of each camera shot. Not to mention, battery life is important on Mars! :)
But please don't permanently damage it. Just do a few donuts, draw Guy Fawkes in the sand, make the clock flash 12:00, grind some rocks to resemble dog poop, and leave the left blinker on along with some geriatric jokes in the flash memory.
Table-ized A.I.