NASA infected with spyware
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:51 pm
http://www.thedailyfarce.com/science.cfm?s...are_01200500014
Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general for the European Space Agency announced this morning right after Huygens landed on Titan, Saturn's moon, and just before the transmission of the first pictures from Titan to Earth, that Spyware SE132 was found in Huygens' internal storage system.
"We are very disappointed and angry at Microsoft." Stated Jean-Jacques Dordain, "We recently installed Microsoft's new AntiSpyware Beta 1 software after we did a 'Windows Update' on Huygens computer systems. Microsoft said it would catch all malicious spyware, but it failed to catch this one. Now, after 10 long years of working on this project, it is doomed!"
"The problem was that they did not install SP2 for Windows XP." Stated a Microsoft engineer who wished to remain anonymous, "And on top of that, those guys had an illegal version of Windows XP installed. They have not activated yet. They can't blame us. They have to follow the rules just like all of our other poor bastard users out there."
"We were so excited to see the first photographs." Stated NASA engineer Bill Propellerhead, "When they started coming in we started seeing these ads and active-x boxes popping up all over the place. We could not see the beautiful rocks underneath those popups. We were very annoyed by them."
In other news, Microsoft announced a new security service pack for Microsoft Windows XP which will fix previous security holes that were thought to be fixed by previous service packs.
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Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general for the European Space Agency announced this morning right after Huygens landed on Titan, Saturn's moon, and just before the transmission of the first pictures from Titan to Earth, that Spyware SE132 was found in Huygens' internal storage system.
"We are very disappointed and angry at Microsoft." Stated Jean-Jacques Dordain, "We recently installed Microsoft's new AntiSpyware Beta 1 software after we did a 'Windows Update' on Huygens computer systems. Microsoft said it would catch all malicious spyware, but it failed to catch this one. Now, after 10 long years of working on this project, it is doomed!"
"The problem was that they did not install SP2 for Windows XP." Stated a Microsoft engineer who wished to remain anonymous, "And on top of that, those guys had an illegal version of Windows XP installed. They have not activated yet. They can't blame us. They have to follow the rules just like all of our other poor bastard users out there."
"We were so excited to see the first photographs." Stated NASA engineer Bill Propellerhead, "When they started coming in we started seeing these ads and active-x boxes popping up all over the place. We could not see the beautiful rocks underneath those popups. We were very annoyed by them."
In other news, Microsoft announced a new security service pack for Microsoft Windows XP which will fix previous security holes that were thought to be fixed by previous service packs.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3044, old post ID:25013