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Angry Brazilian Whacks NASA To Put a Stop To ... Er, the NSA
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.""
he wasn't protesting about the US space agency giving joyrides to inhuman stowaways
Now we're gonna be in for another round of hacking..
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.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
It makes me wince when I hear "low hanging fruit" and "Brazil wax" in the same context.
Easy to tell apart. NASA has big satellite telescopes pointing up. The NSA has bigger ones pointing down.
Have gnu, will travel.
You know what, I want to stop the NSA too, so let me go hack the NBA website
The US intelligence community is fairly compartmentalized in to a bunch of agencies that do different things. For satellites, it's the NRO, National Reconnaissance Office. The NSA is signals intelligence, intercepting phone calls, radio communications, e-mail, that kind of thing. Hence all the stuff that has leaked about what they've been doing.
Also NASA (in tandem with NOAA and the USGS) operates a number of Earth facing sats like the Landsat series. They aren't all that high resolution, lower resolution than the stuff you see on Google Earth, since they are for monitoring things like vegetation index and so on. The newest one, Landsat 8, has some pretty badass multi-spectral sensors.
Like NSA spying, the hacker just caught some "innocent bystanders" by accident. It wasn't illegal hacking, just an honest mistake. Just like the NSA collecting information on innocent people while claiming to target terrorists.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Well, a Brazilian Waxed NSA means that you can't blame it on Bush any more . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!