It's the square patch in the middle. That's I-15 running next to it.
Posted on 06/14/2002 1:23:17 PM PDT by hawaiian
The Pentagon has had its second major intelligence embarrassment in a week after a teenager in Austria hacked into secret plans, including the location of US nuclear missiles.
The exploits of Markus Hirsch, 17, come only days after British surveillance enthusiast John Locker was able to hack into US spy satellite pictures.
Now an FBI team is on its way to Vienna to question Markus. Their big fear is that Osama bin Laden followers may have enjoyed similar access for months. Full Story
Relax
I doubt if this boy cracked anything classified. Since I have work with classified DOD computer systems before, the good stuff doesn't even touch the Internet. Getting by the crypto is not "childs play."
He may have seen some stuff he thought was classified, or it was classified on an unclassified computer, in which some fool could get in trouble for.
And the other thing about the guy seeing raw video feed from Bosnia, The pentagon said it was intended to go unsecure.
The source for this story seems suspect to me.
It's the square patch in the middle. That's I-15 running next to it.
Also, a Tri-State driver I know has carried them for sometime now...
Not sure what they will do if the time comes. But for $10? Why not?
I wasn't accusing, I was looking for an investment.
I did check the packet itself and upon opening it says "distributed by Anbex NYNY 10016. Still unable to locate on OTC.
"It Was Child's Play."Yes it was child's play - because hacking tools have gotten easier to use to the point where an idiot (as proof here and drivers on our nation's roads and highways demonstrates) can do it ...
I think that firewalls should automatically report all unauthorized attempted entries to a central database with date, time and port number. After a while, there would be a trail of where these twerps are coming from. ISPs could be alerted that their systems are being abused and with date, time and port numbers a lot of the twerps could be pinpointed. There are some attempts now to store data on spammers.
It would bust the training wheels off of the less tricky hackers.
There is a firewall software for Macs that sends reports back to ISPs that unauthorized port scans are coming from, that's a good start.
And then arming and detonating would be easy...right?
The ignorant author also believes we still have "multi-megaton" weapons on our ICBMs.
He joins his countryman, Arnold S., neither of them could ever rise in Austria to the level they will here.
Apparently in your world "hacked" means "malicious hacking".
By common definition the signals were hacked since they were not readily available through commercial subscription.
Are there people in the U.S. government who might bring a laptop home, say, and connect it to a LAN at their house? What about an official who connects to a government computer from home but has perhaps had a Trojan-horse keystroke logger installed on his home machine. I'm sure things are much better protected now than they were before the "hackers' war" in 2001, but still.... There are many ways to skin a cat. [And, notwithstanding the "hackers' war," this isn't about the defacement of web sites.]
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