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Are they doing their remote control with Windows Remote Control and sharing passwords?
by rurban 3y ago
Are they doing their remote control with Windows Remote Control and sharing passwords?
- seanthemon 3y agoScientists (and oft most users..) don't want friction when doing work, so they find ways around security protocols to speed up their interactions leaving little security holes everywhere.
- bawolff 3y agoWhich is why the job of a competent security team is to make the secure way be the easy way. If security protocols are a pain in the ass generally the security team has been doing a bad job. Of course a telescope might not have a security team at all.
- aragilar 3y agoI think you'd find it hard to find a Windows computer there (X and Tk are usually what's used).
- whimsicalism 3y agoI have definitely used telescopes that were running on Windows but yeah I doubt it for something like Cerro Tololo which I assume is the impacted chilean telescope
- aragilar 3y agoMe too, but they were much closer to the hobby side than the research side (it's really weird how distinct culturally the hobby and research sites of astronomy are). Cerro Tololo isn't a single telescope, it's a site with multiple ones (nearly every observatory is now), and it sounds like Gemini North (in Hawaii) was the actual one affected, but that they've basically disconnected all the different sites from each to avoid possible infection.
- whimsicalism 3y agoagreed re: hobby & research, and i was aware that cerro tololo is a timeshare of multiple telescopes (was speaking colloquially). looks like gemini south in chile was also impacted
- aragilar 3y agoHopefully this is just them being paranoid and checking and verifying everything, and not something more serious...