Hi everyone!
I understand this may be a weird topic but I hope this lands on open minds. I am a security researcher (not just some guy who thinks hes a “hacker”, I have been working in offensive cyber security for 6 years) and I am currently exploring the security of satellite ground stations both open source and proprietary.
SatNogs caught my eye a while back due to the open sharing of data and ease of deployment. I love space and this project so much I have convinced someone I know to set up his own station just for observations!
The point of this post is not to make this a big deal or to cause any panic, I am putting this up as both a request for comments and a suggestion/warning about my ground station’s observations. Currently I am exploring the RF side of this project, meaning some of my observations will contain bogus data. I mark each one as failed, though I do wish we had the option to delete them.
No malicious data will be fed into the network, just silly data (images in the waterfall, music, etc). I wish there was a way for me to set up a false satellite observation just for my testing! Let me know if this is possible so I dont clog up the real satellite observation feeds.
I have made my ground station’s name and description as obvious as I can that the data will be bad moving forward. I will also bring forward vulnerabilities I discover (if any) immediately, as I would like to see this project survive and thrive for years to come.
Please leave comments if you have thoughts or ideas. Cheers and happy observing!