LHC HACKED! (http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hackers-hit-lhc-computer-system-deemed-scary-experience/)

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Those already fearful of the Large Hadron Collider's potential Earth-ending capabilities may want to turn away for this one, as it looks like the situation has managed to get a bit more perilous, with a team of hackers apparently successful in mounting an attack on a system that is "one step away" from the computer system that controls of one of the LHC's massive detectors. According to The Telegraph newspaper, the group, calling itself the "Greek Security Team," left behind a half a dozen files on the system and damaged one CERN file, in addition to displaying the page above on the cmsmon.cern.ch website, which still remained inaccessible as of Friday. Somewhat disconcertingly, one of the scientists working at CERN simply described the incident as a "scary experience," with a CERN spokesperson further adding that they thought it was just someone "making the point that [the system] was hackable." Um, okaaaay.

-Engadget

This really kinda sucks. Its already a tad scary, but now this?

It's not like it's going to hurt when you die. It'll be like a super quick roller coaster.

It's not like it's going to hurt when you die. It'll be like a super quick roller coaster.
well that makes me feel better. /sarcasm

well that makes me feel better. /sarcasm
I don't see why it scares you. It's like if you just died right now in an instant.

I hope they have taco bell in heaven.

Haha, they haven't hacked any control systems. They've hacked a computer that's "one step away" from the coltroller of one of the detectors, which means even if they get all the way in, they just get the collision data. The control is most likely networked but not connected to the internet for just this reason.

I hope they have taco bell in heaven.
same here.

Well I guess it's time to start the thread we all saw coming:

"[Confirmed] World's Gonna End"

Well I guess it's time to start the thread we all saw coming:

"[Confirmed] World's Gonna End"

or,
[OFFICIAL] World's Gonna End

Well I guess it's time to start the thread we all saw coming:

"[Confirmed] World's Gonna End"
Did you read the comments on the Engadget article? This isn't a sign of the apocalypse. We're going to be fine.

can somone enlighten me on what this service does that is world ending?

or,
[OFFICIAL] World's Gonna End
Lol, or, my personal favorite:

"[FACT] PCs smell slightly funnier than Macs, oh and the world's gonna end.
Did you read the comments on the Engadget article? This isn't a sign of the apocalypse. We're going to be fine.
Oh geez, thank god, cause by the tone in my post I was being totally serious and actually thought the world was gonna end, thanks for the heads up man.

can somone enlighten me on what this service does that is world ending?

LHC stands for Lucious Hate Cream. Basically, its this lotion that when you rub it on, it makes you hate everyone. Thus, creating civil wars all over the world, eventually destroying all of humanity. Now, I bet you're thinking, "Why would anyone use this lotion??". Well, its very lucious. It makes you forever have the taste of cherrys and watermelon in your mouth, making it very hard to resist.

Thats what everyones afraid of.

can somone enlighten me on what this service does that is world ending?

Well, CERN has this device called LHC yeah? the scientists are/will be trying to recreate the Big Bang and analise the data they get. They are looking for "Higgs bosson", apparently this thing is the reason why things have MASS...
Some people say that this MIGHT create a big black hole and suck the whole earth if not the entire solar system.....

LHC stands for Lucious Hate Cream. Basically, its this lotion that when you rub it on, it makes you hate everyone. Thus, creating civil wars all over the world, eventually destroying all of humanity. Now, I bet you're thinking, "Why would anyone use this lotion??". Well, its very lucious. It makes you forever have the taste of cherrys and watermelon in your mouth, making it very hard to resist.

Thats what everyones afraid of.
I love you hxc :p

can somone enlighten me on what this service does that is world ending?
Really it stands for Lucrative Hermaphrodite Cup

Basically it's a mass produced cup that when you drink out of it you turn into a hermaphrodite, and start popping out babies like mad, everyone's afraid the world's gonna end because of the over population that will eventually cause a WW3 and destroy the world.

What are you talking about?

It stands for Little Hiratai Copiers. Where all the people that mimiced Hiratai got zapped by a huge zap of lightning that caused the world to end since he said so.

LHC stands for Lucious Hate Cream. Basically, its this lotion that when you rub it on, it makes you hate everyone. Thus, creating civil wars all over the world, eventually destroying all of humanity. Now, I bet you're thinking, "Why would anyone use this lotion??". Well, its very lucious. It makes you forever have the taste of cherrys and watermelon in your mouth, making it very hard to resist.

Thats what everyones afraid of.
I use that cream to make more cream....
hahaha, my maturity is showing :eek:

Anyways, as for the "World is Ending", look at this
(whether it's truthful about the Dad's work doesn't really matter)
Hello,

I live in Geneva and my dad works at CERN. Let me give some explainations about why it is accessible form internet:
1. The CERN owns two complete range of external IPs, hence every computer (execpt the ones that runs on seperate networks) in CERN has its own unique IP directly accessible from the internet (like a server).
2. The CERN, being an internationnal research facility has the obligation to share experience results, technologies and other informations with all the participating countries.
3. The computer that was hack only gives information. It does not give any control to anything.
4. The article talks about being one step away from controling one of the detectors: the detectors are not the one which are going to run the particles, they are only here to trace the bits coming out from an explosion of particules (when a colision is made). The magnet system to control the acceleration of the particules is obviously way more secured and cannot be accessed from internet.
5. In any case, the LHC cannot be *turned on* by someone just like this: firstly: it takes many days to get to full power, secondly it needs about 3 or 4 power plants for itself to be able to get to its full power, hence if those power plants are not activated (which are not controlled directly by CERN, but by the local power distributor) the LHC simply cannot get to full power.

Also, for those people who are scared:
In the past, just before LHC, there was the LEP, which was running throught the exact same tunnel as the LHC now. The LEP was one of the biggest scientific experience in the past and was using extremly high energies (according to the past). And all the experience with the LEP went really well and never made an accident (and this over more than 50 years). So do not be scared, the people at CERN are extremely qualified, and the LHC project has been planned and thought over for more than 10 years
By: qwertzguy
(http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hackers-hit-lhc-computer-system-deemed-scary-experience/2#comments)
Insanity!

Seriously, all you do is type in what you want to know and it tells you, click here (http://www.google.ca/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENCA273&q=lhc&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

And yes, you can hack lotion.

Did you read the comments on the Engadget article? This isn't a sign of the apocalypse. We're going to be fine.

O yeah of course, let Engadget tell you if the world is going to end or not:p

And yes, you can hack lotion.
Though it takes some 1337 hackin skizzels.

And yes, you can hack lotion.

Next people will be asking about jailbreaking it <.<

so is this the end of the world?

plz i am to young to die :(

so is this the end of the world?

plz i am to young to die :(
So...?

Bgizzle :(:(:(
that hurt :(:'(

Bgizzle :(:(:(
that hurt :(:'(
If you actually paid attention, that wasn't actually BGizzle.