Viruses... In... Spaaaaaaaaace
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NASA is admitting that laptop brought to the international space station in July apparently contained a virus designed to swipe user passwords, though they're not sure how it happened. The computers don't control anything mission critical, but are used by astronauts to send email and to track their nutritional programs. The computers were never connected to the internet, so NASA is guessing that an astronaut had an infected USB key or something that resulted in the virus getting onto the computer.
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You'd kind of think that someone who spends a lot of time almost entirely dependent on computers for their survival would be a bit more careful about malware.
Mind you, doesn't the Shuttle still largely depend on embedded DOS?
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Virus's in space
NASA: When will you ever learn? Everybody get a MAC!
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Not any user password
The virus was meant for getting game usernames and passwords (like WoW and Steam and such). Not really a security threat.
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Just find out who the Gamer is and you have the person responsible. hahaha
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E-mail with no internet?
"...used by astronauts to send email..."
"The computers were never connected to the internet..."
Sign me up.
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Well at least it's not so bad since it's for games or some Gamer is now playing one realistic game of space shuttle.
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Hopefully we don't have astronauts paying their bills from space. :)
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NASA already tried MAC back in the day. After the Challenger they moved to PC... lord, I apologize...
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Re: E-mail with no internet?
I would assume this means a sort of closed-circuit email.
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gamer...? My guess... even astronauts need porn.
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Why? Mac is easier to hack than Windoze!!
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Uhm....
How can they be used to send email *and* never connected to the internet?
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Re: Uhm....
Ever heard of an Intranet?
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They pee into a device which creates suction around their genitals. That they still need internet porn makes me question whether we really have our best and brightest in space.
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Mac isn't the best OS to get. Windows offers compatibility with the majority of computer programs, although if you are looking for flexibility, not in Windows, go for Linux.
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hows that going to help? PCs dont just get viruses, stupid people using PCs get viruses. All macs do is help protect the uneducated. The puter is not the problem! You sound like a MAC user, so I would not expect you to know this. You probably shouldn't use a pc
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Indepenence Day
No, you've got it all wrong.
They took it out there so that they could infect the mother ship inoder to take down its shield.
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Ok, who's the gamer?
I can just picture this guy updating his blog:
"When I find out who hacked my WOW account, you can say goodbye family, hello Guantanamo Bay"
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Re: E-mail with no internet?
Nasa can do that and still had 2 vehicles blow up? Move some of those IT guys over to the mechanical engineering department.
LOL!
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We all noticed Mike's Pig's in Space reference. I bet his favorite character was either the Swedish Chief, or Beaker.
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In Space...
...nobody can hear you... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot... reboot
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could be worse
The computer could be homicidal, not just infected.
"Open the pod bay doors HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."
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Isn't there a Joke somewhere here????
Isn't there a Joke somewhere here????
Even a Rocket Scientist cannot figure out to manage Antivirus software.
Poor guy is probably having his house raided while he is floating around outerspace. As they check his home computer
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Macs are for the weak.
lol... the day everyone runs on a MAC is the day the whole world is too stupid to run a PC.
MACs are for those who cant operate a PC, because they arnt educated enough, and it is too complex for them. Macs DO get viruses. The only reason they are so rare is because nobody cares to make them for a machine that the common use dosnt even know how to check their own bank account online.
People who buy Macs, only buy it for 2 reasons:
1) They are to stupid to run a PC
2) The logo
Plus... NASA dosnt run Windows (are you fucking crazy? How would you like to get a BSOD out in the middle of space?), they run either their own form of a Unix based OS, or a pre-programmed disro of Linux.
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Virus in Space or UK?
Sounds like they should hook up with the British government - they have managed to lose countless records and passwords to hackers this year! tanzanite
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Virus in Space or UK?
Sounds like they should hook up with the British government - they have managed to lose countless records and passwords to hackers this year! tanzanite
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