SpaceX Offers $25K Bounty to Hack into Starlink Written 16 August 2022

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SpaceX Offers $25K Bounty to Hack into Starlink

View of the 60 Starlink satellites from the 24 May 2019 launch. |  Credit: Official SpaceX Photos, CC0/Wikimedia Commons

Fortune reports that SpaceX’s Starlink “is encouraging people to hack its system and suss out its security issues through a bug bounty program.” Starlink’s announcement comes shortly “after Lennert Wouters, a security researcher, said he hacked into Starlink and presented his findings at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Aug. 10.”
Full Story (Fortune)