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    Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship


    Posted: 31 Dec 2011
    Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.

    The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

    The project's organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites.

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    mickey megabyte's Avatar Posted By: mickey megabyte
    31 Dec 2011



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    sounds like a bunch of teenagers , sitting round having a drink and a smoke ,with grand ideas.
    anyhow the goverments could just zap it with a laser and disable it as they would see it as a threat
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    So whose satellite are they going to hijack?

    Isn't that what they always do with other peoples hardware...

    I'd put them into orbit around Uranus...
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    Hackers having their own satellites and ground stations to monitor them is going to cost hell of a lot of money, and it is difficult to gather such kind of money. They just don't have that kind of moolah and setups.

    Getting a comsat and finding some country to launch it for them and later on controlling them through ground stations is going to be very expensive and not only that it will be illegal to operate as per the government norms, and the governments shall very easily crash the whole project.

    Running underground web sites is one thing, but this project is very huge and will be difficult to run. Such ideas are only possible in movies like James Bond 007... but not in real life...
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    rraod said:
    Hackers having their own satellites and ground stations to monitor them is going to cost hell of a lot of money, and it is difficult to gather such kind of money. They just don't have that kind of moolah and setups.
    Exactly....hope they have lots & lots of $$$$$$$
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    Qdos said:
    So whose satellite are they going to hijack?

    Isn't that what they always do with other peoples hardware...

    I'd put them into orbit around Uranus...
    Need to put all the Hacker's and elected officials in that satellite and then have it orbit Uranus.
    THW
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    Wow, is it possible to happen?
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    Mual said:
    Wow, is it possible to happen?
    No.
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    seekermeister said:
    Mual said:
    Wow, is it possible to happen?
    No.
    Even after a very long period?
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