Hacker scalps NASA-run websites Miscreants took advantage of weak security to hack into two NASA-run websites over the weekend. The websites of NASA's Instrument Systems and Technology unit and Software Engineering division were broken into and screenshots illustrating the hack posted online. Hackers appear to have taken advantage of SQL Injection flaws and …
• What psychiatric disorders will the alleged perpetrators have?
• What countries will export their citizens to cover up for NASA's technical sloppiness?
• How many millions worth of "damage" will have been done (aside from embarassment)?
• What lessons will NASA have learnt from this recent escapade?
1. Asperger's Syndrome of course - what else?
2. UK, Australia and New Zealand. These are the puppet states of the US, most other countries won't do this.
3. $150 m to $2.2 bn depending on the salary of the executive who claims no other company will employ him because of the breach (even though they will of course)
4. None whatsoever.
Do I get a prize?
Your (correct) usage of the word stopped being the unwashed majority's definition about the same time War Games came out at the cinema (or probably before that... phreaking? i forget).
So that's at least 20(30?) years where being a hacker has been seen as negative, or at the very least not distinguished from the good sort.
Compare, if you will, Climategate with the "Hopenhagen" summit hubris/hyperbole.
Hats off the the brave bloke who went on The One Show to point this out.
That's democracy for you
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
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