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Security researchers who spend their days monitoring the chat logs of Anonymous IRC users have found some insane boasts of future hacks, with one user requesting help in hacking NASAs newest Mars rover.
The claims come via security team Flashpoint Partners, which found an Anon user calling himself MarsCuriosity requesting help in accessing NASA’s feeds. The specific request asked for “Anyone in Madrid, Spain or Canbarra who can help isolate the huge control signal used for the Mars Odyssey / Curiosity system please? The cypher and hopping is a standard mode, just need base frequency and recordings/feed of the huge signal going out. (yes we can spoof it both directions!).”
Whether this is an idle boast of a rogue member or a genuine hacking attempt we can’t tell, we’ll just have to wait to see if images of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall start appearing on top of NASA’s imagery. [RT]
If some little sh*t from Anonymous wrecks billions of pounds and years worth of work for one of the greatest experiments on Mars I will personally make it my mission to track him down and knee-cap the little shite… or more likely get him grounded from his mom
Unless of course he/she does something cool like burn their name in the martian soil with Curiosities eye-ball lazer and then hands it back unharmed to Nasa control… in which case fair play
If they hand it back with the code to secure it properly after I will personally take him cookies.
The distributed nature of Anonymous means it sometimes has cock headed neanderthals making a noise. The person who suggested this should be tracked down, tied up and defibrilated in the face. Curiosity is human kinds baby and he’s the paedophile.
i think that should someone take action that damages what there doing, then track em down, but i like the idea of proof of concept showing how it can be done, so they can better secure the connection, it’s alot of money and apart from that, alot of lives have been put into this, Dreams too.
DO NOT HACK IT TO MAKE THINGS BAD – HACK TO PROVE A POINT YA WHY NOT
as long as you then work with Nasa to secure it, tell them there problems.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
That is not very nice as i do indeed, only have one finger on each hand. I will from dis day forward, spell better and make more effort with ones grammer.
Again i am sorry, one thing i would hate to do is annoy.
Oh FFS, this is either
1. Someone who thinks they can look cool by claiming they can hack Curiosity.
2. Someone having a joke on IRC and being taken seriously
3. Someone trying to discredit anonymous by making it look like they would hack curiosity.
4. Someone from Flashpoint Partners trying to get their name splashed all over the internet by “discovering” this “threat”.
or, specially for the tinfoil brigade.
5. Someone at a secret government organisation who needs an excuse to take curiosity off line so that it doesn’t photograph the bases that America has had there for years
America? Everyone knows the Nazis got there first.
screw moon Nazis, its the Martian Nazis you want to watch out for!
Well yes, but the America got there using the Nazi technology after world war 2 and took over the Nazi bases (after a brief space battle). the Nazi base on the moon is still there as any battle would be too easily seen from Earth.
You’re also forgetting the Mayans…
Don’t be silly. They’re obviously using it as an excuse to shut it down to hide all of the martian evidence they found.
Agreed. Going after huge tax evading companies…. fine. Tracking paedophiles…. great.
Hacking something like this…. not cool.
Whaaaaa? I was replying to crezo.
Giz, edit post feature. Come on, long overdue.
Yeah yeah, it’s on the list. In the meantime: just take more care when commenting!
Or jsut gvie up caring wen you make a mastake
C’mon, it can’t be complicated!
Add a button that shows an input box with the content of the comment and another button that says update, click update, update the DB and voila! You could even go as far as you add a delete button!!
It’s not quite as simple as that, I’m afraid — part of the hold-up is due to legal repercussions. We’re working through it.
what legal repercussions do you have that all the other 99.999% of comments pages dont have?
It’s our legal team — they worry about the repercussions of allowing commenters to edit their comments after being published, meaning anyone who replies to the first iteration could then see the comment rendered void / inaccurate. We’ve got to be really careful in the UK with libel laws etc, because essentially the content providers can be found liable for anything commenters say on the site.
There are a few other reasons as to why we haven’t been able to add a comment edit functionality to the site, but I’m not getting into that now. All I can say in the meantime is — just proof-read your comments before publishing. You send emails without the ability to edit them afterwards, so it’s not too much of a stretch, is it?
Ahh its the old “reply to this post if you like Kittens/Hitler switcheroo”. Have you considered a time limit on the edit after which the comment is frozen. My personal experience is that I notice the errors just after I press send.
Ahhh, what have I started???
How about a delete button? That way you can just start again..
We don’t have spell checker!
all browsers have it. for IE you can download one. just use chrome or opera anyway.
Hopefully, if this is at all real, they’re just trying to spoof the feed coming in from Curiosity so they can put fake pics in, not trying to control what it does with an outgoing signal
Sending some funny pics from earth to earth based NASA would be cool. Screwing up the communication protocol commands and causing a system crash trying to get Curiosity to do something funny on Mars, not so much