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Alien
07-03-2000, 04:47 PM
LONDON, July 3 — A computer hacker endangered shuttle astronauts in 1997 by overloading NASA’s communication system, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.

AS THE SHUTTLE docked at the Russian space station Mir, a hacker tapped into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration computer system that monitors the heartbeat, pulse and medical condition of astronauts aboard the spacecraft.

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Juranda
07-03-2000, 10:15 PM
...oh, how the plot thickens!

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/hacker000703_rxn.html

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