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Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC
Doomsayers Delight writes "The Telegraph reports that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10th. 'Scientists working at CERN, the organization that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were "one step away" from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine, a vast magnet that weighs 12,500 tons, measuring around 21 meters in length and 15 meters wide/high. If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector and, said the insider, "it is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it."'"
security updates?
Windows updates.
Any chance they had a Trojan Horse at the ready?
even scientists need to d/l pr0n while they wait for particles to fly around that thing....
but some jackasses decided to mess with things they knew nothing about.
I'll get my towel.
Work Safe Porn
Vista needs to phone home for activation.
See? See? Computer security is harder than building 27km ring with enough precision to smash single protons!
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I found an interesting video feed for the system they were accessing.
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Watch it for a minute, you can see the effects the hackers are having on them.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
I was told I could download Spore without DRM from that IP.
I've nothing of importance to say, now go away before I taunt you with a second sig!
What could have been:
Cracker1: Cool, looks like we got into the outer network, let's try the inner one.
Cracker2: OK, try this...
Cracker1: What's this program "/staff/sfalken/games/Tictacto.exe"
Cracker2: I don't know, let's try it.
Cracker1: OK.
*EARTH-SHATTERING BOOM*
God: It's the end of the world as I made it, and I feel fine.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Just wondering if they used a trojan to gain access.
Sneaky Greeks.
Yeah, right, as if the LHC has enough horsepower to run Vista!
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Wonder how they broke in? Through the backdoor of course.
In other words: The Large Hadron Collider was Greeked
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How can we be sure they were Greek hackers? What if they were agents of the TechnoCore "performing experiments on farcasters" while pretending to be Greek hackers? <_<
Ross Denton: Hello, hello, I'm Ross Denton, head of public relations for the Two Mile nuclear facility. First, I'd like to welcome all members off the press to Two Mile Island. I hope you enjoy your stay here and that you'll come back again real soon. Now, there will be box lunches at air cooling tower #1 after the briefing, and later the buses will take you back to the motel for a special screening of the Jane Fonda film, "Barbarella".
Male Reporter #1: What about the accident here at the plant?
Ross Denton: That what? Oh yes, yes, the accident. Uh, let me give you a little uh, technical, uh, background here. [ shows a diagram of a nuclear reactor pointing to nuclear energy, pointing to a toaster. ] This is a nuclear reactor. Now, the nuclear fuel here is used to generate energy here, which is sent to your homes to make toast.
Male Reporter #2: But what about the accident?
Ross Denton: I was getting to that. Sometime yesterday afternoon we experienced what we like to call a surprise. And, well, we had to release some radioactive steam.
Female Reporter #1: Well, how much radiation are we being exposed to right now?
Ross Denton: Well, I'm sure all of us here have been to the doctor and had our chest x-ray, haven't we? Well, it's just like that, only it's as if the doctor had to give you the chest x-ray over, and over, and over again. Or, it's like falling asleep under a sun lamp for a week or two! Or, it's like drying your hair in a microwave oven! And to give you some idea of how little danger there actually is, President Carter will be here tomorrow. Now, gentlemen, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yes, I'm sorry I have to cut this press conference short, but now I'd like to hand the stage over to the Two Mile players! They're a pro-nuclear mime troope, and they're going to perform a little skit for you, kids!
*** Ross Denton: Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentleman of the press. First, as to the president's condition, let me say that the president is feeling certainly "stronger" than he's ever felt. And he would like to be with us right here, in this room if he could. I think now I'll just open the door to questions-
Female Reporter #1: Yes, is it true that the president is 100 feet tall?
Ross Denton: Nooooo! Absolutely not!
Male reporter #3: Is the president 90 feet tall?
Ross Denton: No comment.
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That their IT security team "sucks bosons."
You got to it before I could, but you failed to use "Hardon Collider" in the most relevant metaphor I've yet seen.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
No, the zeros don't weight anything.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Maybe if IBM had been in the LHC business rather than the computer business in the 70s, they'd have been right to dismiss the personal LHC in favor one or two LHCs worldwide that everyone uses.
or somesuch.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
remember: everything PhDs do is art. everything. including using their alma mater's mascot name as their password. art, i tell you!
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Big Bang is trying to access your system.
Confirm or Deny?
Confucius Say "large toroidal machine always have security hole in middle."
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Not a truck. A series of tubes
This simply isn't an acceptable way of distributing information. Their brief notices on minor pages away from the real information are about as useful as a house demolition order being posted in a basement with no stairs or lights.
It was on display on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'
I can move a 100GB drive without using either of my hands, provided I don't cough.
It looks like your creating a black hole...
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
I just KNEW these damned Greek Aristotelians with their 4-elements theories wouldn't let it go.
2300 years later and they STILL carry a grudge against atomic theories.
Can't you just let it go guys? We're not made up out of earth, wind, fire and air. Not even if you succeed at blowing the LHC to Hades.
Then they can create a one way data warehouse dump of the data on a daily basis.
Just have the LHC create some nice little black holes and dump the data into them. One way data warehouse, with absolutely perfect data security.
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
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