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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. Oh great you had to say it didn't you.. by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 5, Funny

    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..

  2. NASA NSA by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easy to tell apart. NASA has big satellite telescopes pointing up. The NSA has bigger ones pointing down.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. Oh Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what, I want to stop the NSA too, so let me go hack the NBA website