Langsec Troubles In Space

[AtomicMaster]

I was reading this article, it was news some days ago, but basically there was a communication problem between the module and the ISS, which aborted the docking attempt.

 

I followed the link to the source and read this:

Orbital Sciences has confirmed that this morning at around 1:30 a.m. EDT, Cygnus established direct data contact with the ISS and found that some of the data received had values that it did not expect, causing Cygnus to reject the data

 

 

And then it sort of hit me; this is a typical protocol implementation error on the side of the module programmers, i.e. langsec vulnerability... Hilarious and sad at the same time!

 

http://www.space.com/22895-private-cygnus-spacecraft-aborts-docking.html