Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find

JCY2K writes "According to The Inquirer, hackers gained access to the secure server where the data about the new planet was being held and threatened to reveal it. Evidently the discoverers have been withholding this information from the public since 2003 while they waited for full analysis."

So, did they...

[John Napkintosh]

Hack the planet?

Security through Obscurity

[Natchswing]

When will corporations ever learn? Obscuring the knowledge of the 10th planet will not keep us safe from their eventual attempt to take over Earth.

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[EccentricAnomaly]

more from here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/science/29cnd-pl [nytimes.com] anet.html

Dr. Brown had still hoped to hold back announcements of 2003 UB313 and another large Kuiper Belt object, 2005 FY9, until October, but his hand was tipped by Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center, who said that he was worried about hanky panky.

Dr. Marsden said that it was possible by looking on the Internet at the logs of one of the telescopes Dr. Brown's team had been using to find out where they had been pointed. He had evidence, he said, that someone had done that and computed crude orbits of the two unannounced planetoids, "presumably" in preparation for their own observations.

perhaps we should call the planet P4w-N3d :)

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[Anonymous Coward]

No it doesn't, and please stop anthropomorphizing it.

Yeah, it hates it when you do that.

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[Anne_Nonymous]

I sure wish beer just wanted to be free half as much as information does.

My Horoscope ick FUBAR!

[Henriok]

Bah! My horoscope was beaten to a pulp when NASA shot Deep Impact into Tempel 1. now they are withholding info that will be of immense importance in my future. I'll sue their asses!

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[Golias]

But that information doesn't want to be used as fodder for extortion.

Won't somebody think of the information!?!?!?

Star Trek

[AviLazar]

Dear 10th Planet,

After carefully reviewing your application to join the United Federation of Planets, we have determined that you are inelligible to join. We based this decision on the fact that we would have to re-write one-too many episodes. While we could do this with a time jaunt, we realize our viewers are sick and tired of time skipping ever since it was abused on Enterprise.

Sincerely Yours,

Admiral J.T.K.

P.S. Go to PriceLine where you can name your own price!

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[MooseByte]

"For example, you do not know my Driver's License number. Unless I tell you right now, you will die not knowing it."

D00d, we flipped that database months ago.

PS- That haircut isn't you at all. Experiment!

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[Hope Thelps]

I agree that impressionable young minds shouldn't be exposed to this fallacy

Yes, if we expose people to figures of speech at an early age then we run the risk of raising a generation that can use language effectively. This could be the end of the internet as we know it.

Re:Supports the Hacker Creed

[Anonymous Coward]

To impart, even metaphorically, the idea that inanimate objects have a will subtly taints the thought processes of even the most advanced thinkers

Yeah, it's like pretending that computers have bootstraps they can pull themselves up by. Bastards, it was years before I realized the truth. They wear sandals.