South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice

Marda writes "It's been known for a while that Romainian cyber extortionists cracked the computer network at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station last year. Now SecurityFocus is reporting that another computer intruder penetrated the station just two months before, and cracked the data acquisition system for the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), a radiotelescope that measures properties of the cosmic microwave background. It turns out the station was insecure 'purposely, to allow for our scientists at this remotest of locations to exchange data under difficult circumstances,' according to internal reports."

Comments

Hrm, well

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I suppose they weren't running Windows or any Microsoft product, because it would have been helpfully pointed out again and again in the article and the Slashdot submission.

Furthermore the discussion would be about how scientists are 'stupid' because they don't use Linux (preferably Gentoo would be my guess) instead of about security or cracker ethics and so on.

Uncanny.