If you see a "UFO" dancing around the sky, you'll know what it is.
Posted on 03/01/2012 8:59:02 AM PST by Nachum
A laptop stolen from NASA contains the control codes used to command the International Space Station.
The unencrypted laptop stolen last year is among dozens of mobile devices containing sensitive information that have been reported missing from the space agency, an internal investigation has found.
Giving testimony on the space agency's security issues, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin told Congress that 48 agency devices were lost or stolen over a two year period.
The mobile devices, which contained personable data, intellectual property, and highly sensitive export-controlled data, were stolen between April 2009 and April 2011, CBS News reported.
Over two years alone NASA was the victim of 5,408 computer security breaches that included unauthorized access to systems or the installation of unauthorized software. The incidents during 2010 and 2011 cost the space agency around $7 million.
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Mobile devices such as laptops and USB memory sticks account for about half of all breaches. If it moves, encrypt the darn thing.
/johnny
PGP Whole Disk Encryption is not as expensive as a space station.
hussein should ask the russians for it back, same as he did Iran for the drone.
sooooo, change the codes.
put HOLDER on the case./s
“Giving testimony on the space agency’s security issues, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin told Congress that 48 agency devices were lost or stolen over a two year period. “
Isn’t it odd that it has happened during the reign of hussein? I imagine, if he were questioned, it would be Bush’s fault.
Maybe NASA should be replaced by the USAF on all things space related.
must be why they upgraded all the laptops and brought up new processors to the controlling computer on the ISS also updated the software...
And we should trust NASA with trillions of dollars to embark on a Manned Mars shot or a Moon Base? I think not - no way in hell.
If NASA is run anything like this administration, put all the sensitive information/codes on the laptop and GIVE it to the Russians ... they’ll NEVER figure it out!!
(Even if they figure it out, they won’t believe it!)
Given that NASA is now solely dedicated to preparing
Obama’s 57 States for orbital jihad,
honest appraisal would include (but never will)
that perhaps some of these were given, transferred,
or “lost” with a purpose.
Given that NASA is now solely dedicated to preparing
Obama’s 57 States for orbital jihad,
honest appraisal would include (but never will)
that perhaps some of these were given, transferred,
or “lost” with a purpose.
Perhaps Leonard Wallowitz (sp) was trying to impress a girl again...
Yup, I have always considered those cute, cuddly codes to be very personable.
Probably given to our Islamic friends as a peace offering.
Great. Now anybody who sneaks onboard the ISS will be able to control it.
Well, tnbis is what happens when you make NASA a Muslim outreach.
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