Na 1 miljard dollar te hebben geinvesteerd in de beveiliging van hun systemen, zijn de NASA computers nog steeds 'makkelijk' te kraken. En daarin zag de naarstige senator Liebermann (u weet wel, de man die zo graag wil dat spellen gecensureerd worden) weer een kans zich te profileren...
``We successfully penetrated several mission-critical systems, including one responsible for calculating detailed positioning data for Earth-orbiting spacecraft and another thatprocesses and distributes the scientific data received from these spacecraft,'' the General Accounting Office (GAO) said.
Having gained access to these systems, the report said, ``we could have disrupted NASA's ongoing command and control
operations and stolen, modified or destroyed system software and data.''