NASA IT Department = Incompetent

[DevilDude]

http://www.dailytech.com/NASAs+ISS+C...ticle24144.htm

Jesus motherfucking Christ

[Tarminic]

[Zeekar]

Just retarded.

[Cydo]

Almost to stupid to be true, alas.

[Varcaus]

[Shiroi Okami]

[Spaztick]

[noobcake]

So while I struggle to find a job in IT, this agency is employing the equivalent of brain dead monkeys to run their IT department? Only in the united states...

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[Rans]

Yes, I'm sure you're the type of guy that can protect state secrets from Chinese hackers. You're Nasa's Messiah.

[Lief Siddhe]

inb4 chinese bot

[Sparq]

didn't they toss or eBay some PCs a few years back with intact drives chock-full of data? I'm sure this isn't the first time NASA have failed so hard (that is a pretty god damn big fail though, I wonder what sort of encryption they're even using to authenticate the codes)

[Bacchanalian]

Yes, I'm sure you're the type of guy that can protect state secrets from Chinese hackers. You're Nasa's Messiah.

He could probably teach them how to let windows update patch their OS once in a while, which is apparently more than they can handle.

[shaewyn]

Not really much more to say than this.

[Rans]

Yes, I'm sure you're the type of guy that can protect state secrets from Chinese hackers. You're Nasa's Messiah.

He could probably teach them how to let windows update patch their OS once in a while, which is apparently more than they can handle.

You can patch up windows as much as you want, the moment they've got 20-30 laptops they'll have a nice quantity of very expensive information.

[Dirk Magnum]

Not one thing about that article struck me as competent news reporting. The idiotic pictures were just the icing on the failcake. I also like how they speak glowingly of Bush Jr's dumbass moon expedition ideas, and they neglect to mention that the shuttle was already sleighted for retirement. And does anyone mind telling me what 1% of 48 computers is actually supposed to mean? Also I don't like a news article linking to a bunch of links at its own website.

Even if the story is true, some people need some e-journalism lessons.

edit: fucking techwhatever.com waste my 500th post >_> It was really ME who cancelled the shuttle program!

[Cool09]

I like the photo of "Chinese hackers"

[Tellenta]

Yes, I'm sure you're the type of guy that can protect state secrets from Chinese hackers. You're Nasa's Messiah.

He could probably teach them how to let windows update patch their OS once in a while, which is apparently more than they can handle.

not to rain on your lol parade, but there are a significant number of computer/data/interwebs security measures that specifically instruct the people that use said security not to update unless they specifically say so.

Also did that article imply that China would be spying on the ISS when the international community is already asking China (and india) to be members of the ISS team?

[Brullig]

I like the photo of "Chinese hackers"

Strategic blurring! What a great stock photo.

[Lana Torrin]

To be fair, I wouldnt want to patch hardware in orbit either.. Sure, laptops on the ground should be patched, but not all of nasa's stuff is easily accessible should it die on reboot.

[Tellenta]

I like the photo of "Chinese hackers"

Strategic blurring! What a great stock photo.

I've seen it over and over again, that photo has to be at least 10 years old. I wonder what it was originally taken for. judging from the background a local fluff piece.