Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

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• radix@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jeff Goldblum is the alien.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh snap!

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least in the space odyssey series they had a weird kind of explanation for that approach. Unlike in Independence Day

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    • PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Actually in ID4 there was an explanation. Basically all of humanity’s computer tech came from reverse engineering alien tech. So our computers worked with theirs because they were based on theirs. Maybe this isn’t this best logic, but they did at least have an in universe explanation.

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      • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah. That makes sense

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• DarkGamer@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We haven't mastered SSH authentication via psionic tendrils

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  • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at this human still using SSH. I bet they still process on old PCs instead of PC2’s

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/1782/

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  • Muscar@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I SSH authenticate stuff via my psionic tendril all the time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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