| Cacique Caribe | 25 Jul 2017 11:15 a.m. PST |
link Who would make such a claim, except the world's best hackers, right? They must think that everyone else is primitive in comparison to them. Dan
PS. Of course, this is all nothing but unwarranted Sinophobia because we all know that, according to China's intel, it's North Korea who is doing all the hacking. :) |
| MHoxie | 25 Jul 2017 2:25 p.m. PST |
NASA could launch an axetronaut to hack the satellite. |
| Col Durnford | 25 Jul 2017 2:28 p.m. PST |
What's it called Titanic? Once deployed, everyone will attempting to hack it. |
| Charlie 12 | 25 Jul 2017 5:44 p.m. PST |
"'Unhackable' Satellite" Now that's rich…. EVERYTHING can be hacked, given enough time and energy. Chinese are stoned out of their minds if they actually believe this. |
| Winston Smith | 25 Jul 2017 6:26 p.m. PST |
"Unhackable" is to many a challenge.
"Warren, get all this crap off my desk." Why not paint a bullseye on your chest? |
 piper909  | 25 Jul 2017 9:11 p.m. PST |
Maybe it's made of cardboard and duct tape and a lawnmower motor? |
| David Manley | 25 Jul 2017 10:56 p.m. PST |
Maybe reading the article would be a good idea chaps |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Jul 2017 11:14 p.m. PST |
Yep. I found this part very interesting: "If you send a message you want to keep secure from eavesdroppers, traditional encryption works by hiding the key needed to read the message in a very difficult mathematical problem.
But what is "difficult" in terms of maths? It means you have to think really fast to figure it out as you try endless combinations of long, numeric keys. In 2017, that means you need to use a very powerful computer." However, with a key … "Quantum communication works differently:
If you want to send your secure message, you first separately send a key embedded in particles of light
Only then doyou send your encrypted message and the receiver will be able to read it with the help of the key sent beforehand" So quantum communication works more like what I remember about cyphers. What's special about China here … "The research itself is not new and China does not have an edge over the competition. Where it does have an advantage is when it comes to applications.
"Europe has simply missed the boat," says Prof Anton Zeilinger, a quantum physicist at Vienna University in Austria and a pioneer in the field.
He says he tried to convince the EU as early as 2004 to fund more quantum-based projects but it had little effect.
"Europe has been dragging its feet and this has hindered us from being able to compete," he says.
There are quantum key-based networks operating in the US and Europe but most are being carried out as research projects, rather than with commercial partners." Dan
PS. What's worrisome to me is that China has been using this for sometime now. You would expect them to be afraid of our tech countermeasures catching up already, or in the near future, but they aren't even worried about that happening for a very long time. Very sad for the West. |
| PMC317 | 26 Jul 2017 2:17 a.m. PST |
Quantum communications! Aaaah incredible. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 Jul 2017 3:43 a.m. PST |
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| Andrew Walters | 26 Jul 2017 9:10 a.m. PST |
If I wanted a satellite secure, I wouldn't tell anyone I launched it, or I'd say it was for environmental research. I would announce an unhackable satellite, or whatever, under two conditions: #1 I want everyone to try and hack it so I can catch hackers or observe their techniques. #2 I wanted to distract the hackers away from something else. You might suppose this is only because I am a weasel, but this is China, and they can be pretty sneaky, too. |
| Lion in the Stars | 26 Jul 2017 9:47 p.m. PST |
Unhackable means that it is completely isolated from all other computer systems. Which means that it cannot talk to the ground. That's rather non-useful for a satellite. ANYTHING is hackable, given enough time and effort. |
gets his hands on some fields and fences.