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Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider
- jcdreads 18y agoCollider Exacts Revenge With Large Hadron Beam
- rokhayakebe 18y agoSounds like a scene out of "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agowhy is hardware control attached to machines networked to the internet?
- orib 18y agoBecause it's control and monitoring, and the internet is the easiest way of sending around small chunks of data that you recorded to colleagues around the world.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agowhy isn't data recording a one way process?
- kirse 18y agoWell they might not be able to properly configure a few computers, but let's just hope they got the whole simulating the creation of an entire universe thing down.
- MoeDrippins 18y agoOnce these hackers are old enough for their testicles to drop, they should be cut off.
- jdoliner 18y agoHardware control is done through the internet because it needs to be controlled remotely. The LHC is enormous so you can easily be 10 Km from your the hardware. Not to mention the hardware is also sometimes controlled remotely by researchers at other facilities such as Fermilab. Also we should remember that CERN has pretty much everything hooked up to the internet because they invented it. Which makes the whole situation pretty ironic.
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- 9912839141 18y agoThe web, at least: http://ben.web.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html http://ben.web.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html
- dpapathanasiou 18y agoAhem, "crackers", not hackers.
- Autre 18y agoA brief explanation can be found here http://pv0.info/2k/v http://pv0.info/2k/v.
- kenver 18y agoIt seems that network security is not near the top of many people agendas over there (it might be now) - even though not having it done properly leaves them open to attacks which could stop them achieving their primary goal.