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US Military 'Hacked' by Emails
An anonymous reader writes "Two of the US Military's most important science labs were apparently 'hacked'. Phishing mail was sent to a pair of research labs, where trojan programs allowed interlopers access to the otherwise secure networks. One of the sites was the infamous Los Alamos, which has been discussed many times here at Slashdot for its string of security breaches. 'Los Alamos has a checkered security history, having suffered a sequence of embarrassing breaches in recent years. In August of this year, it was revealed that the lab had released sensitive nuclear research data by email, while in 2006 a drug dealer was allegedly found with a USB stick containing data on nuclear weapons tests. "This appears to be a new low, even drug dealers can get classified information out of Los Alamos," Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), said at the time. Two years earlier, the lab was accused of having lost hard disks.'"
Today's Terrorism is just a fabrication to cover up the real truth.
That there are Aliens among us, and that USA and Iran both know about it.
Listen to Kucinich.
I kid.
those ICBMs don't have ethernet jacks for their firmware updates ;)
Mushroom clouds be in order, beeyach!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Don't believe him. Conspiracy theorists aren't for real. They are government agents pretending to be conspiracy theorists, in order to distract us, to keep us from discovering their great conspiracy.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
Which type of aliens though? Fom space or those just seeking a job?
There is no "disagree" moderation, and troll, flamebait and overrated are not valid substitutes
Is it really worth pouring more money into this idiotville if every bit of scientific progress they make is practically public knowledge soon after?
Exactly, because scientific progress is so worthless if it's made public.
You just got troll'd!
Shouldn't there be a large *Poof!* now, and the faint tinge of logic hanging in the air?
If you know your history, our government and military have always used campaigns of disinformation against our enemies. Maybe sensitive information was stolen, but there is an equal chance they simply recognized the attack and allowed "sensitive information" to be compromised. That's just my opinion, I guess we'll never really know.
Quoth the headline: "Los Alamos has a checkered security history" ...
Hey, where I work we don't talk like that. I interpret that to be a politically correct, human resources filtered, public official sanctioned version of the statement: "They're about as secure as a hooker's panties on New Years Eve in Times Square."
I could be wrong, of course.
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