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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."
Why can't they just leave our unsecured network alone? Next we'll have to secure that WiFi network so the Australians stop leeching.
I almost had FP, but the latency out here on the south pole is horrible.
CowboyNeal! You have just slashdotted an insecure server running the lifeline of dedicated scientists, far far away in Antartica! You insensitive clod!
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South Pole. Chilled. Check.
Great job...
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Mission : go to Antartica, maintain email services. Duration 6 months.
Week 1 : upgrade and patch all machines.
Week 2 : make snowman, look at machines, plat solitaire.
Week 3 : blizzard, look at machines
Week 4 : play solitaire, start drinking beer
week 5 : remember about the pinball game, install pinball game play pinball
week 6 : Got lost for 3 days in the blizzard when making a snowman
week 7 : can't play pinball because of bitefrost bandages, drinking bourbon, watching blinkenlights on hub
week 8 : poured bourbon in file server so I had something to fix, got scolded by director of base who saw me
week 9 : tried drinking kerosene
week 12 : woke up in infirmary when doctor was about to start autopsy
It seems doctor had been smoking joints, asked him if he had any left
week 13 : shagged a penguin. Finished last of bourbon
week 14 : damn pengion follows me everywhere 11 more weeks to go. Found an AOL cd in the mailbox yesterday, no idea how it got there.
Great job indeed.
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