So, get this junk, y'all. NASA has worms. Seriously. One of the awesome, super special astronauts has a worm in his laptop -- and this is not the first time NASA's been infected, it turns out.
This is disturbing on so many levels, and I am not soothed by the fact that NASA has dealt with it before, nor am I soothed by the fact that they don't really seem to see a problem with this little malware boo boo. I mean, what else would they say, that they were scared to death? That they're terribly afraid that mission data and other important, space related stuff was in jeopardy? Of course not. NASA isn't honest, no one that big is. That's like believing politicians tell the truth.
My biggest problem here -- and it seems to echo in a lot of the blogs and news reports I've read on this -- is how can they be so sure nothing was seen, taken, accessed? How do they know? It's all well and good to pat the public on the head in the hopes of making them think that some little super smart, sixteen year old hacker is just up to some mischievous tricks, har-de-har, those darn kids, but that does not answer the question of how in the frigging world does the International frigging Space Station attract malware? How? What? Huh?
We'll know the answer, I guess, when Russia blows us up or something.
