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[jay]

Someone has finally noticed that we're talking online to the Space Station through a VPN. (Looks at VPN application, sitting on my desk here at work...)

I remember fierce battles 10 years ago with the Apollo-era old guard as to why we needed network capability *at all* on the Station... (smiles quietly).

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I don't know the details... my guess would be that it was dumb luck on the DOS abusers' part, they probably had a robot looking around for convenient sites to launch DOS from, and happened to randomly stumble upon the IP address of the onboard health-monitoring computer. The perpetrators may have not known the actual identity or physical location of the NASA computer that they were "borrowing"...

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Which to me indicates almost criminal recklessness on the part of the people launching the DOS attacks, but then I'm a little rabid on this subject.