The first rule of Usenet is: You don’t speak of Usenet. They like being kept off the radar, but braggers can’t help but bring it up every opportunity they get.

You should check out the NEO Surveyor mission. Planned launch is in 2027 :)

I’m guessing it would depend on how early they’re detected. I’m not involved in planning or anything, just putting what I know about them out there. But yes, they would be who NASA calls when they find something.

I know they were involved in the DART mission. With the satellites used being launched and operated out of Vandenberg, a Space Force base.

They mainly manage our satellites. Including communications, intelligence gathering, GPS, missile detection systems and monitor/protect them from attack/EM interference. That includes all of our civilian satellites.

They also make sure we (the whole planet) don’t end up like the dinosaurs. Which is nice.

Just because I mentioned one scenario and didn’t mention another, very specific scenario doesn’t mean I ruled it out completely. And yes, that is a straw man, see Nutpicking.

You’re also giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming that the encryption is implemented properly. Which is something the NSA has botched before and could very well be used to ground allied aircraft during joint operations. Which, again, would be stupid.

You might want to give this a read, then re-read my original post. I never said there wasn’t a backdoor, just that it would be stupid.

That’s not what I said, at all.

PS - I work in InfoSec (CISSP). Please tell me more about what I’ve been doing for past 20 years lol

I really need to re-watch that show. But I can’t stand all of the useless bickering lol

BAE Systems (in the UK) has full F-35 manufacturing capabilities. The Brits could tell them to toss it any day now and I wouldn’t be surprised, with the way things are going.

Not a fan of speculation and we’re likely to never see any official documentation, considering it’s a military aircraft.

But I will say: If it is true, it’s probably the dumbest thing you could do to an advanced fighter like this. Just imagine that you’re in a conflict, then the enemy hacks your command and control systems and disables/hijacks all of your aircraft. Yeah, that’s pretty dumb.

Even the Star Trek writers realized this sort of thing is a bad idea.

I was tired and it felt ranty after reading it back. Was also super off-topic. So I just deleted it.

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