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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.
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