How are telescopes protected from blinding light and satellite glares? I imagine a situation must happen sometimes where a telescope watching a very dark object may catch a bright flash of light or a reflection off of a satellite. If that's even a concern at all (maybe all such telescopes are already designed to exclude that possibility), what countermeasures against blinding someone's eyes or frying the digital photo sensors are there?
Random bright objects can occasionally appear in astronomical images. Examples include asteroids and satellites. However, these objects are not moving at the sidereal rate across the sky, and thus unless the telescope is set to track them, they leave a trail across the image. 

This is unlikely to cause damage and CCD detectors are fairly robust to saturation of exposures in any case. However, it may ruin the image.