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South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doors-wide-open dept.

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."

2 of 292 comments (clear)

  1. So uh... by Rooked_One · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why can't we just leave the last unclamined "land" in this world alone?

  2. Spelling.... by pdamoc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's Romanian NOT Romainian.
    I'm not proud of what some of my countrymen did but I am proud to be a ROMANIAN.