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Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by vladd on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:26PM (#4368345)
(2): there are plenty of third world countries or foreign government agencies where placing a 80-meter dish is not a problem.

Although the process seems a bit intimidating - http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/features/dsnbuilt1.html

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Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by vbtemp on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:35PM (#4368380)
Not just assembling the dish - you also have to know the ephemeris schedule, bit coding scheme (it changes based on circumstances), packet formats, software infrastructure... In the great scheme of things, my friend, Cuba or Zimbabwe secretly erecting an 80 meter dish just to f--k with a rover on mars isn't really a concern. Even though ESA or China or Japan might conceivably have the theoretical capability to do this... there are other things to worry about.
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Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by stephengillie on Saturday August 11, 2012 @04:20PM (#4370885)
They could just DOS it by blasting it with white noise.
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