Hackers In Space: Designing A Ground Station 95
An anonymous reader writes with some new information on the happenings of the Hacker Space Program. From the article: "At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034. The plan calls for three separate phases: Establishing an open, free, and globally accessible satellite communication network, put a human into orbit, and land on the Moon. Interestingly enough, there is already considerable work being done on the second phase of this plan by the Copenhagen Suborbitals, and Google's own Lunar X Prize is trying to spur development of robotic missions to the Moon. But what about the first phase? Answering the call is the 'Shackspace,' a hackerspace from Stuttgart, Germany, who've begun work on an ambitious project they're calling the 'Hackerspace Global Grid.'"
Hack into the ISS. Crash Into Moon. Done! (Score:3, Insightful)
Otherwise, why call this hacking?
Engineering, anyone?
Re:Hack into the ISS. Crash Into Moon. Done! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:these guys.... (Score:3, Insightful)
they're going to run into some fundamental engineering constraints
Nooo.... they're going to run into some military constraints. Last time I checked nobody "owned" space. There is no sovereignty claiming it as their possession.
The US government, among others, is already targeting the Internet and shutting down websites over copyright. If they can do that with Internet services running on physical equipment that is actually on the ground in a country then I think they definitely won't give a crap about taking down a "free and globally accessible satellite communications network". Except that won't be done as cleanly as taking down a website. Probably involve some missiles.
If I was part of this group I would be thinking about ways of subverting existing networks to run Darknets. It's far less likely they will try a scorched earth tactic with those networks and a more productive use of their time.