NASA is basically trying to get hacked
Summary
May—26—2018 12:32PM EST In 1999, a 15-year-old who called himself “c0mrade” hacked his way into NASA’s computers and stole $1.7 million worth of software that controlled the International Space Station.According to a pair of reports issued this week by NASA’s Inspector General, the 2018 version of c0mrade the teen would have a pretty damn easy time of worming his hormonal way into NASA, too.Moreover, Agency policy excludes specific IT systems and flight hardware, such as equipment operated on the International Space Station, from risk assessment requirements.In other words, just like you and I, when NASA buys a piece of technology it just googles around to see whether or not it’s got some sketchy shit in it that’s going to steal all of our data, or they just ask the person who’s selling them the thing to see whether or not it’s legit.When you’re putting people in outer space, you should probably triple-check to make sure that every piece of equipment involved with that endeavor is 100 percent legit and not vulnerable to hacking, otherwise very, very, very bad things could happen.