Posted on 02/09/2018 12:17:40 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The system—used for simulating weapons tests—was not supposed to be connected to Internet.
The Institute is located in Sarov, a "closed" city east of Moscow where nuclear weapons research has been conducted since 1946. The facility is so secret that it was left off Soviet maps; Sarov is surrounded by fences and guarded by the Russian military accordingly. While the city is the home of Russia's Nuclear Weapons Museum, don't plan a visit anytime soon—access to Sarov is restricted, and no one who does not live in the city is allowed to visit without permission. Foreigners visiting on official business have to surrender their passports, cell phones, and other electronic devices at the city's checkpoints.
(Excerpt) Read more at blacknewszone.com ...
Theft of computer time, haha.
There are suspicions that the radioactive polonium-210 used to kill ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 came from Sarov.
The Federal Nuclear Centre reportedly employs up to 20,000 people and its supercomputer boasts a capacity of 1 petaflop, the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43003740
Extremely good stuff! thank you.
(I still maintain the reCAPTCHA thing is just a way to make us mine bitcoins for Alphabet.)
Probably trying to make up for crap wages.
He’s a hacker The crime was that he hacked Russian computer time. If he’d been able to get time from an American supercomputer, he would have gotten a medal.
So the clever bastards over at google found a way spread out the energy and computing cost!
Like Setti@home, a huge distributed slave network.
Grinding out bitcoins!
Goog gets the gold, we get the shaft!
Silly scientists!
Don’t they know only the government is allowed to do that? !.....................
It is a time-sharing system and they probably did not hog the total bandwidth?
Until bitcoin took a recent dive...
If we are lucky then maybe Wiki leaks has their entire database....LOL
Just because they are doing a side job, doesn’t mean they are giving away the store.
You have a network of computer with sensitive information connected to the internet. It was never intended to be connected to the internet. So it not even hardened to be connected to the internet. My guess is that any good hacker could have Gotten right in through the front door.
...good hacker could have Gotten right in through the front door.
But all of our good hacker teams are working overtime to extract fake news from the Whitehouse.
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