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Comment Seems like the satellites should have deadman's... (Score 1) 165

Seems like the satellites should have a deadman's subsystem. If the satellites can't receive commands or the rest of the control systems are otherwise not responsive, the deadman's subsystem should be able to initiate de-orbit. Of course many failures would inhibit this, but for some classes of failure such as failure to communicate with the earth, this would "cleanup the junk" faster.

Comment Re:Canada (Score 1) 235

"In 2019, the population density was approximately 92.9 residents per square mile of land area. Population density has been tracked for over two hundred years in the United States. Over the last two centuries, the number of people living in the United States per square mile has grown from 4.5 in 1790 to 87.4 in 2010."

So, no, we all don't get a square mile in AK.

Comment Re:So much for that "hardware disable" ... (Score 1) 52

I haven't followed the latest hardware, but in the past, the camera-on LED was controlled locally by the camera firmware. There *were* attacks (which required local code execution, and possibly root perms) which would allow you to override the LED, but I haven't kept up on the cat/mouse around that.

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