Safety first eh?
Is anyone yet convinced why I don't trust that Large Hadron Collider? should we be concerned? I think that's a healthy question. If DNS doesn't blow up the world as we know it, the Large Hadron Collider will. You might heard about some Greek hackers who defaced a CERN sub domain, if not, there you go: you know now. That was kind of interesting because CERN said that the hacker was 1 step away from entering the CPU of the hadron detectors and could shut it off if he knew how.
Read that again please:
They defaced a CERN subdomain that was 1 CPU away from one of the detectors and could shut the LHC off.
Who in his right mind connects the detectors to the friggin' net?
So how hard is it really? hacking the LHC for destruction and fun? well you know me, it's not that hard of course. CERN has tons of computers running. So it's easy to even imagine a single flaw some place. A nine billion dollars failure in the making is of course too tempting for most scientist to screw around with. Let alone for hackers. To show off, here is what Google found for me in under 2 minutes. I am certain you will find the rest.
http://hcc.web.cern.ch/hcc/safety_subsec.php?safetysub=A45' OR 1=1--
I hope you all sleep well tonight.
And please be gentle with that Higgs-Boson when you find it eh? Say the Boson hello for me will ya?
