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Brazilean hackers miss their target and attacks NASA instead of NSA

Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 00:38 UTC
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Hackers have hit back in retaliation for US cyber-spying on Brazil but mistook the US space agency NASA for the National Security Agency (NSA), a news website reported here Tuesday. Read full article

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  • yankeeboy

    Brazilians are so stupid.
    hahaha

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gonzo22

    Hands off Latin America, USA.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 02:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Priceless!!!!!!

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Xect

    Oh man, that's embarrassing!

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • little bill

    How did they come to the conclusion that the attackers confused NASA for the NSA?

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 06:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Casper

    @5 little bill

    Leaving a message that states: “Stop spying on us” on a space agency with a very similar acronym to a spying agency would seem to be pretty conclusive evidence. In my humble opinion...

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @2 “Hands”? If the U.S. pisses, Brazil drowns.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    2. If The USA wanted South American we'd have taken it by now.
    I don't know why Latams don't understand this?
    They always seem to want to live in the past and have some boogeyman to blame their own problems on.
    Grow up and accept responsibility for electing terrible gov'ts over and over again.
    It's not our fault you are lazy, stupid and corrupt.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Good job the former terrorist, who herself commanded a cell, the members of which killed a US Military officer in front of his wife and children, isn't going to the States after all.

    Not only would she be unable to hold her head up due to the stupidity of her hackers, one of the days she is going to be unmasked for what she is, someone who attacked the Junta but allowed killings of foreigners herself.

    She claims she didn't order it or even know about it, but I bet she didn't have the coward that did it shot. So, liar, incompetent, or just doesn't GAF?

    Who knows, WTF cares?

    Brazil are really loosing the plot.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Third world hackers = priceless.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    NASA have issued a statement that on each orbit over Brazil, their astronauts will refrain from looking down, meanwhile, back in the UK the CBI are checking their computers to make sure they have not also been hacked!

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • little bill

    But NASA are ofen hacked. Their security is bad. They are just a target of opportunity.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gonzo22

    They didn't make a mistake, they just wanted to get the message through to the USA government.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 13 BOZO

    I think we should award you the Stevie Brass Figurine award for the worst response possible on every occasion!

    Ha, ha, ha.

    Sep 18th, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Casper

    @13 Gonzo22
    That they can't spell?

    Sep 19th, 2013 - 04:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ManRod

    “ If The USA wanted South American we'd have taken it by now.
    I don't know why Latams don't understand this? ”

    Lol... I got no bad feelings with the US, but your comment is quite silly. If the US isn't able to totally conquest one of the poorest nations of the world (Afghanistan) I think it's quite obvious it cannot fully conquest one and a half continent which quite alot more developped nations.

    Sep 19th, 2013 - 08:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    16 ManRod

    I think you misunderstand the situation in Afghanistan completely.

    The Taliban are Muslim extremists and do not care if they die for jihad (or holy war). Many other will take their place seemingly ad infinitum.

    Contrast that with LatAm: all mouth and trousers. Would any of them be prepared to die to see “God”?

    Ha, ha, ha.

    The MBOA wants a “brother” country to take the Falklands because they tried once and they ran away.

    Please tell me if I am wrong but has there been any major conflict involving LatAms in recent years that has not ended in a fiasco?

    The USA could take any and all countries in the southern cone if they wanted to and were prepared to use serious firepower to do it, never underestimate them.

    Sep 19th, 2013 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    16. If we wanted to we could take each country 1 x 1 until the continent is ours. Do you know nothing of history or current events?

    BTW if we wanted to destroy Afghanistan or any other mid east country we could do so without leaving our shores. If it were up to me the whole mid east would be a solid sheet of glass by now.

    Luckily for them it's not up to me.

    Sep 19th, 2013 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stevie

    yanqui
    The fact that people like you don't have access to any trigger buttons, has nothing to do with luck.
    It's calculated.

    Sep 19th, 2013 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Casper

    ...and Dr Strangelove rides again...

    Sep 20th, 2013 - 06:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/18/brazilean-hackers-miss-their-target-and-attacks-nasa-instead-of-nsa#comment276346: And it never will be up to you. You probably have not noticed but we have discovered just how crazy you wingnuts are. This is evidenced by the recent events regarding Syria where the Neocons et al have been advocating their usual rubbish. But we, the American people, have said no.

    You seem not to understand that by nuking Afghanistan, for instance, we loose. And it is this lack of understanding that has made you now, fortunately, irrelevant.

    Sep 23rd, 2013 - 02:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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