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Fermi Lab Compromised by Pirate
tttonyyy writes "The US Department of Energy sounded a full scale alert after machines were compromised at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, according to this BBC article. It turns out that the hacker was a student using the machines to download and store music and movies."
The kid could have picked a less prominent host to save money on a hard drive.
Given that he probably did it for the self-boast rather than space, he should be roasted.
what kind of twit takes the space at a sensitive research facility for MP3s and divx stuff? he should also count himself lucky he wasn't in the US: he'd be halfway to [remote prison facility] within hours.
serves as proof that hackers aren't necessarily smart.
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he gets 200 hours for hacking into a national laboratory, but will probably have to pay every last penny he owns to the RIAA and MPAA for having illegal copies of music. hrmm....
The article isn't very specific about the level of access he had gained. I'm guessing the classified information was firewalled off from the network which he broken into for its internet bandwidth. At the very least, I'd expect (false hope?) that the actual particle accelerator controls aren't accessible from any internet-connected computer.