Presumably when they realized that the attacker had access to their control panel they shoulda coulda (yes I know I hate that too) called Amazon and had them shut everything down until order could be restored.

surely it's just a matter of arranging to get it hit by debris heading in the right direction and small/slow enough not to destroy the cubesat. Bonus points if cubesat captures the debris and takes it out of orbit at end of life.

I have a Hantek 6022BE and I'm please with it, but my needs were modest, just show a few waveforms to the kids at school

the senior engineers that tested the system consider it undetectable. The intern just smiled and said nothing...

I don't know... I'm a big fan of popcorn.

At last, it's not just me then !

Not to mention that I remember multiple cases a few years back of large amounts of government data (tapes, laptops etc.) getting lost, it seemed, on a regular basis.Oh hey, wikipedia even has a page on it.

Certainly there is a place for severe punishment for horrible crimes, but this is mostly about portraying a group of people as undesirable. The UK government has a history of creating commercials that make thieves out to be subhuman, you wouldn't catch them doing the same to nefarious bankers. It's just old fashioned them and us politics. What they don't realize is that if you daemonize a hacker, she just runs in the background.

And I would add, "who live in a society that is unable to contain them". I could see some banana republic dispatching criminals as it has no reasonable incarceration facilities, but the US doesn't qualify.

they've invented forward error correction, this could enable data communications and audio CDs.

I have an IPv6 block, I think the're freely available.

There are some cheap things that could be added but were, IMHO, cynically left off for marketing reasons. For example, an SDCard port.

Per wikipedia Ultimate Tensile Strength of S-glass is 4710MPa and UTS of Carbon fiber is 4137. I know that density is often mixed into the equation for strength, but even so... The biggest thing Carbon has going for it is its stiffness.

I did. I do.

Why should I accept any risk of that ? It's not like you have my interest at heart. It's a selfish fantasy that you'll be left the last man standing.