Hackers warn of ‘weaknesses’ in atom smasher
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Hackers calling themselves the Greek Security Team have warned of alleged faults in the Large Hadron Collider, the “biggest experiment in the world,” says The Telegraph, going on:
“As the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva where the world wide web was born, a Greek group hacked into the facility, posting a warning about weaknesses in its infrastructure.”
The hackers, “mocked the IT used on the project, describing the technicians responsible for security as ‘a bunch of schoolkids’,” says the story.
“We’re pulling your pants down because we don’t want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes,” it has the hackers writing in Greek in a “rambling note posted on the LHC’s network”.
But, “despite an ominous warning ‘don’t mess with us,’ the hackers said they had no intention of disrupting the work of the atom smasher,” says the story.
Scientists working on the Collidatron, “had already received threatening emails and been besieged by telephone calls from worried members of the public concerned by speculation that the machine could trigger a black hole to swallow the earth, or earthquakes and tsunamis, despite endless reassurances to the contrary from the likes of Prof Stephen Hawking,” says The Telegraph, adding »»»
The website – www.cmsmon.cern.ch – can no longer be accessed by the public as a result of the attack.
Scientists working at Cern, the organisation that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were “one step away” from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine, a vast magnet that weighs 12500 tons, measuring around 21 metres in length and 15 metres wide/high.
If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector and, said the insider, “it is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it.”
Stay tuned.
The Telegraph – Hackers infiltrate Large Hadron Collider systems and mock IT security, September 12, 2008
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September 12th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
then get some non noobs to run you lil corner of the universe. you have all that crap and its being looked after by some real dumb shits, sorry you FAIL. AND like the peeps from greece told you it could have been worse had they wished.
Kind alike that pentagon hole that was held for 7 yrs till some noob tried it without knowing wtf hes doing.
Imagine that sirs, you better get strong or die.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
lol
its like that xkcd comic i saw once, where they were talking about the antivirus software on the voting machines
having security required on this machine is going about it in completely the wrong way. There should be NO outside connection to this machine whatsoever!