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U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Re: U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Post by john37386 »

Used to work for internet video game companies at the infrastructure level. We were constantly under attack. I mean, out of 40 Gbps of bandwidth on internet spread over multiple data centers, a good percentage was just pure hacks and attacks.

I can't imagine to drop our firewalls, ips and all of the security gears we had for few seconds. The knowledge built to reach this level of maturity in internet security was several years of man power.

I'm not sure how bad are the attacks against the space force, but I suspect it's slightly higher than any other normal high profile entities on internet.

They probably deserve a good shake. Let's give them a good shake, shall we?

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Post by apcragg »

ianbicking wrote: post #69

A bit of an aside to the exact article, but it makes me think about all the software attacks that might be made on satellites. It's kind of like they have an open port, small deployment, and no way to physically reset the machine. It seems inevitable that they have many serious and exploitable security flaws...

The USSF hosts Hack-a-sat at DEFCON! See here for details! https://www.hackasat.com/

Re: U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Post by tjpnz »

HideousKojima wrote: post #65
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What space plane does the US have? What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones? The article states that Russia is trailing US spy satellites with their own. You make no sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 That probably?

This too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser

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Post by YeBanKo »

jand wrote: post #43

This article presents some thoughts on how, if and when the US should or could strike (back) in space after summarizing the alleged current space combat capability developments of other nations. You can easily replace "US" with other nations and the target audience with their citizens and allies. By this logic, every nation needs to ramp up space combat capabilities, because their perceived or real enemies could also…

> By this logic, every nation needs to ramp up space combat capabilities, because their perceived or real enemies could also do so.

It is a typical arm race. It going on for other types of warfare at the moment, now there is another dimension.

Regarding Petrov, I think there were more than one such cases. I remember reading about a similar case on the US side, afaik the operator that decided against pulling the trigger was disciplined for not following protocol or disobeying orders.

This seems benign compared to nuclear though, as mutual strikes don’t lead to mutual destruction.

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Post by alksjdalkj »

fallingknife wrote: post #34
boomboomsubban wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I don't think one guy saying they're launching non-damaging attacks on satellites is worth making the lives of over a billion people worse.

If retaliation for an attack makes the lives of 1 billion Chinese worse, then that's on them for attacking, not on us for responding. A space force general is not "one guy saying"

It's distressing how casually people can suggest harming a billion people - for actions that the vast majority had nothing to do with.

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Post by nine_k »

FredPret wrote: post #40
nine_k wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can imagine lightweight semi-permanent disablement by spraying paint on lenses and wrapping the entire craft in aluminum foil. Zero space debris, and not even destruction of property. This takes more fuel and an advanced robot craft, but should be preferable for a time when a fast all-out war is not being fought. And I hope both sides would like to avoid an all-out war.

Space rendezvous is really hard. Easier to get line-of-sight and then beam attack it

Hitting is easier of course!

The idea is to disable a satellite in a nicest possible way, in order to look good in the eyes of everyone but the adversary.

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Post by pabs3 »

fallingknife wrote: post #34
boomboomsubban wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I don't think one guy saying they're launching non-damaging attacks on satellites is worth making the lives of over a billion people worse.

If retaliation for an attack makes the lives of 1 billion Chinese worse, then that's on them for attacking, not on us for responding. A space force general is not "one guy saying"

The people who did the attack aren't going to be the ones punished, which doesn't seem fair to me.

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Post by thatguy0900 »

dylan604 wrote: post #35
thatguy0900 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the space force need to justify its existence? Seems obviously justified to me, anything in space will be one of the first targets in any near peer conflicts and every state with the capability is working on and even openly testing space capable weapons.

Is there anything from the ground that can be done by Space Force to protect assets in space from direct attack from projectile weapons? Is there anything Space Force can to from space to protect them? No? Then what have they actually done except get new uniforms and patches?

I mean those are the problems that are being worked on, I presume. Seems a little tautological to say we currently have no space defense/offense capabilities so it's senseless to invest in space defense/offense.
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