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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."
I don't get it.
ha I am waiting 18 seconds to type this. The delay shit sucks used goat ass
Meaning they were too stupid to remember passwords and because they're "higher thinkers" they shouldn't have to put up with it. I've seen it too many times to count. Dorks.
I want to make some kind of half-assed joke here about network security, Linux, and penguins, but I just can't be buggered to come up with something creative.
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.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
been looking For!
First: unclench.
Good.
Second: Prepare yourself for future-shock and read up on this crazy new-fangled thing called "remote access."