The ISS is full of laptops , used for experimentation , email , or justwatching picture rips on VCDs in 2001 . But this time , someone ’s laptop has managed to make it all the direction up into Earth orbit acquit the Gammima . AG worm - one that phlebotomize login data for Asiatic MMORPGs . We ’re doomed ! The ISS does n’t have a full - time final connection , but astronaut can ship e-mail sporadically through the Ku - circle master data tie . NASA reassures us that any virus found on an spaceman ’s laptop has small chance of compromising any of the station ’s principal systems . But it did cope to open to more than one laptop once onboard the station , either via machine - to - machine networks or thumb drives - so it ’s not a crazy assumption to make . NASA further downplayed the story to the folks at Threat Level , saying this kind of matter happens “ all the sentence . ” But still , whoever the fuck - up is that wrote this virus is now collecting massive , monolithic LOLZ in whichever cellar he is presently calling home . [ BBC , Threat LevelviaSlashdot ]
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