This new satellite enters orbit with one mission: To get abused by hackers

If hackers get bored here on Earth, they'll soon have the chance to test their skills in space. The challenge is this: during the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas in August, they'll have to remotely hack the Moonlighter satellite, which successfully launched into space earlier this week. Moonlighter is a 5-kilogram mini-satellite —

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