http://www.aviary-mag.com/News/Leakage__Part_One/Leakage__Part_Two/leakage__part_two.html NASA Leakage -- Deadly Leakage By MIKE HUDACK 135 out of 155 NASA computer systems were found vulnerable by NSA hackers, reported the General Accounting Office. The GAO, however, didnīt say what was contained on those systems -- they simply called them "mission critical." The fact is, however, that thereīs a lot more to these systems than NASA missions. "[Some NASA software has] the functionality of serving in the capacity of a munition's guidance system," said an anonymous source inside NASA. The weight of such a statement is quite obvious. "The software, however, would require a certain amount of modification and adaptation to accommodate the purpose [of nuclear weapons guidance]," the source continued. The pattern is clear: earlier this year, the world learned of espionage at Department of Energy laboratories in which neutron bomb technology was stolen. At this point, there is no evidence that guidance technology from NASA computers has been stolen. The fact remains, however, that China has a dedicated force of computer hackers who do nothing but probe US Government computers. Their missing NASA would be extraordinarily unlikely. The most damning evidence, reported by two anonymous NASA employees, states that NASA has known about security holes in its Information Technology facilities for more than a year. According to them, "Security has consistently been reduced to a reactive role in every part of the agency. [IT] which has long been identified as vulnerable is not prohibited." In fact, one went so far as to suggest that it would take a fundamental change of NASA leadership to create any true security at the Agency. Continued at: http://www.aviary-mag.com/News/Leakage__Part_One/Leakage__Part_Two/leakage__part_two.html -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: OSAll [www.aviary-mag.com]
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