But at the Chaos Communication Camp, held in Zehdenick, Germany last week, the organizers did something different: they gave out rad1o badges. These software-defined radios are sensitive enough to intercept satellite traffic from the Iridium communications network. During a Camp presentation entitled "Iridium Hacking: please don't sue us," hackers Sec and schneider demonstrated how to eavesdrop on Iridium pager traffic using the Camp badge.
The Iridium satellite network consists of 66 active satellites in low Earth orbit. Developed by Motorola for the Iridium company , the network offers voice and data communications for satellite phones, pagers, and integrated transceivers around the world. Iridium went bankrupt in , but was later purchased from Motorola in by private investors, who have revived the company. The largest user of the Iridium network is the Pentagon. It's that it has no security. Originally designed in the s, the Iridium network was obsolete by the time it was launched in Iridium pager traffic is sent in cleartext by default, and most pager traffic remains unencrypted.
And since they have a significant history of trotting out reasonably useful frameworks that folks are free to implement, they do seem to have some provenance in helping to set those expectations and at least get space folks to the table.
The first bad thing that can make lots of other bad things happen is to block communication to the device, since it makes it unusually difficult to fly up to troubleshoot on the remote end, or do anything else on your interstellar PC for that matter. How do you prevent that?
There is a certain natural risk severity escalator in space after all, which makes things like code review and hardening even more important. Also, be less experimental in areas that have a long and boring security history. Mostly miss. Indeed, NIST has a list of acceptable crypto , while we await quantum crypto standards coming in years. CubeSats make is cheaper to access space, but they could be targets for hackers.
Malik suggests using frequency hops to make it harder for attackers to jam signals. In the case of GPS, ground systems should make greater use of GPS authentication to ensure the signals are authentic and not manipulated by a third-party. Thankfully, newer satellites are using encryption, but Malik stresses that is not a silver bullet. Operators still need to carefully monitor and log satellite traffic. This is done using encryption and decryption of the data.
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