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Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find

Posted by timothy on from the well-that-was-nice-of-them dept.

JCY2K writes "According to The Inquirer, hackers gained access to the secure server where the data about the new planet was being held and threatened to reveal it. Evidently the discoverers have been withholding this information from the public since 2003 while they waited for full analysis."

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  1. The Scientists Had No Right... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Troll
    The scientists had no right to keep this information secret if they used publically funded (one of the telescopes on Mount Palomar) equipment to make this discovery, or their salaries are paid from tax money. Taxpayers deserved to hear about it when it was discovered.

    The people involved in this should be banned from using public equipment due to their clear lack of ethics!

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  2. Full disclosure? by Sv-Manowar · · Score: 0, Troll

    This method of using intrusions to force 'full disclosure' by scientists is interesting, and begs why this information can be kept out of the public eye, where it would benefit the scientific community at large, and is instead held back to bolster the reputations of those who make the initial discovery. Should they really have the right to keep the information secret until they've had the opportunity to make time-critical observations and gain all the information they require to make impressive enough announcements. Who knows what else could be kept back from the scientific community until its observer deems it 'impressive' enough to release..

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  3. So Maybe The Other Hacker Was Right by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll


    Maybe that guy who busted into computers looking for evidence of a UFO coverup was right.

    He just didn't bust into the RIGHT computers and he was sloppy about it.

    Anybody ever try to hack the computers at Area 51? That might be fun.

    Don't do this from home. "That's universally stupid, dude!"

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  4. Well thank you too much by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Troll
    Stupid crackers.

    How about cracking imdb and putting the endings to movies on line.

    Get a life, fer Bobsake.

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  5. Re:They should check Karl Rove's computer by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Troll
    who knows what you could find there

    Probably all the best places to get artery clogging fatty foods. The guy needs to go biking with the pres or something. All he's missing is a curly tail.

    Seriously, you don't think someone as intelligent as Karl Rove would do something incriminating and leave it on his...

    Ok, you've got a point there.

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  6. Information Just Wants To Be Free by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    You got a problem with that?

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