European Space Agency hacked
It appears some of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) servers have been hacked, with some of its internal data placed for sale on the web.
On 26 December, reports began to emerge on X claiming that ESA had suffered a significant data breach, with a hacker using the alias “888” offering more than 200 gigabytes of data for sale. According to the hacker’s listing, the allegedly compromised data included source code for proprietary software, sensitive project documentation, API tokens, and hardcoded credentials.
ESA has since issued a statement claiming the data breach was limited, but according to information posted on X, the breach included “Confidential internal documents (Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alenia Space)” and “sensitive technical information related to space programs.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if China is bidding for this information right now. Then again, Europe’s space effort is so unimpressive compared to China that China might not see the information worth much.
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It appears some of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) servers have been hacked, with some of its internal data placed for sale on the web.
On 26 December, reports began to emerge on X claiming that ESA had suffered a significant data breach, with a hacker using the alias “888” offering more than 200 gigabytes of data for sale. According to the hacker’s listing, the allegedly compromised data included source code for proprietary software, sensitive project documentation, API tokens, and hardcoded credentials.
ESA has since issued a statement claiming the data breach was limited, but according to information posted on X, the breach included “Confidential internal documents (Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alenia Space)” and “sensitive technical information related to space programs.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if China is bidding for this information right now. Then again, Europe’s space effort is so unimpressive compared to China that China might not see the information worth much.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Empty well there, China.
Focus
Stole it, Jeff Wright. I was going to ask “Why?”
And these are the people who want to censor what the rest of us say online. [deleted]
Gus:
I have looked at the EU’s GDPR, and California’s CPRA. They are products of their respective cultures, in that the California version is more protective of the individual, and allows more freedom for the collective (business). No need to think profanely; Asia and North America (except maybe Canada), have left those kinds of restrictions behind. The World has moved on; there is an entire new frontier to exploit. Central control is out; there is a new land rush. Even the Chinese know that.
Gus: You are new here, but you should read the rules. No obscenities. And dropping a few letters doesn’t make it right. I have deleted your curse word.
You are warned. You are welcome to comment more, but if you do it again I’ll suspend your comment privileges for a week. A third time and you will be banned.
To Blair,
I always try to emulate my favorite character, Foghorn Leghorn.
The looks I got at a beach while I was walking by a teen going on about wanting a “nice healthy tan:”
No such animal
Gus: as one who has been there; believe it.
“I say, I say, boy. You want a tan?! Why, you must be crazy, boy!”
And China complains about the sanctions on itself from the EU.
These dictatorships are all falling and should be taken down at the best opportunity.
The Chinese people might not be able to self govern though because of their closed society for so many years.
Russias have a better chance at self governing.
North Korea will need the direct help of the South Korean people
I really do not get the krauts some days
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Jd7HrHw5ITg
Jeff Wright:
I’ve lived in places Not The US. It is remarkable to an American how much social control other societies accept.
Jeff Wright,
I don’t know where that girl lived in the US but it apparently wasn’t California.
Blair Ivey,
As someone who also spent a couple of years working in Western European countries almost 50 years prior to the girl in the video, I’m here to tell you you are absolutely correct. All the Europeans who didn’t like being bossed around moved here in the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The ones left are all well-trained poodles. Very nice people, may of them – particularly the Italians – but domestic animals at their cores for the most part.
As almost all Europeans are also dying off with unseemly haste, their various shortcomings will prove to be self-correcting problems in the long term. They would be wise to make arrangements with the US, while they still can, to look after their various national cultural heritage sites before they fall into the hands of the arriviste Muslims who aim to replace them.
Dick Eagleson urged: “. . . before they fall into the hands of the arriviste Muslims who aim to replace them.”
Wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened in Europe.
This is just wonderful
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/gm_AZvpdpZ4
I wonder if the French care more about the Olympics these days.