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

Re:Eric S. Raymond Vocabulary Enforcement

[AKAImBatman]

Blah, blah, blah. We're not in the 1990's anymore. The term "hacker" is not a badge of honor. Rather it has entered into the lexicon as a very broad term. i.e. "He hacked into their system, therefore he's a hacker." is just as valid as "He hacked the code to do amazing and completely unmaintainable things, therefore he's a hacker!"

In short: Just give it up. It's a pointless argument.

Re:slashdotters don't have a fucking clue, as usua

[gad_zuki!]

First: unclench.

Good.

Second: Prepare yourself for future-shock and read up on this crazy new-fangled thing called "remote access."