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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
An anonymous reader writes: Two open-source libraries used in the Mars Rover software have been integrated in the source code of a malware family (nicknamed Rover) used as part of a cyber-espionage campaign against the Indian government (Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan). The two libraries are OpenCV and OpenAL, two libraries for processing image and audio information. As such, the Rover malware can take screenshots, record video and audio.
Common software libraries used for malware. News at 11.
because this isn't one.
What sensationalist BS. It's using standard libraries open to anyone, nothing unique to the mars rover.
Why not say that it links against libc and that it uses "Nuclear Reactor Code!!11!" in its malware.
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Really? OpenCV was used for something? I fail to see how this has any connection to the Mars rover.
./ is going rapidly downhill with these kind of stories.
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Next thing you know, the Mars rover will be sending me spam emails. Something about good prices for property with views of Olympus Mons.
What are you trying to tell us ?
That open source software is terrorism, with weapons so advanced that they're also used by federal agencies ?
Or that these projects' licences should have been GPL, so that it would have prevented the malware authors to spread their software without publishing their source code, and we all would have our personal rovers now thanks to all of that NASA code ?
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Just avoid any story posted by Timothy. He's known for posting sensationalist bullshit with no content whatsoever. He likes to link to forbes and never spell/grammar checks his submissions. He is the embodiment of exactly how horrible Slashdot has become and will continue to be. If you see a story that was posted by Timothy, just assume its going to be garbage designed to maximize ad revenue.
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H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.
Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.
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At first I thought all this complaining was a bunch of nonsense and that it was a bit of an interesting story. Then I realized that I had misread the summary. This wasn't code that was developed for the Mars rover, it was code that just happened to also be used in the Mars rover. Interest gone, complaining agreed with.
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Or an exercise in "how to turn a non-story into something topical"?
Fine trolling, I have to give you that. Managed to fool the editors into actually thinking this is a story.
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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
Hey, whipslash, where are you? This is the kind of shitty misleading click-bait none of us want to see.
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Hey, I've written software that uses libraries that are used by the CIA!
Just to name one: the standard C library.