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Angry Brazilian Whacks NASA To Put a Stop To ... Er, the NSA

Posted by samzenpus on from the horseshoes-and-hand-grenades dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From the Register, "Multiple NASA websites were defaced last week by a Brazilian hacktivist who may have misread the sites' URLs, because he wasn't protesting about the US space agency giving joyrides to inhuman stowaways – he was protesting against NSA spying. 'BMPoC' hit kepler.arc.nasa.gov and 13 other sites with messages protesting against US spying on Brazil, as well as a possible US military intervention in Syria. It's hard to believe anyone would confuse the NSA spy agency with NASA, the space agency, except for satirical purposes or to mock script kiddies in some way, so we can only guess that the hackers behind the attack hit NASA because it's a US government agency whose systems are noted for being insecure.""

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  1. Not that far off the mark by stox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The dimensions of the Space Shuttle were specifically designed to carry large spy satellites. Many early scientific missions were spy missions in disguise. So NASA has been in bed with the intelligence complex for quite some time.

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    1. Re:Not that far off the mark by dbIII · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Since you didn't work it out from the above posters post I'll try to make it a bit clearer. The cargo bay is not the issue but instead all the extra fuel capacity that enabled the shuttle to get into polar orbits for military missions. That's what made the shuttle a collection of stuff tied together proving anything can fly if given enough of a push instead of the earlier designs of an orbiter sitting neatly on top of a well designed collection of rockets.