“Hackers On The Moon?”

Whitey has already been on the moon, and now hackers want in. A note from Adam Clark Estes on Atlantic Wire about the increasingly outré plans of attention-seeking hackers, who are Anonymous but don’t wish to be anonymous:

“‘At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034,’ Tom Hardy writes on The Powerbase. ‘The plan calls for three separate phases: 1. Establishing an open, free, and globally accessible satellite communication network, 2. Put a human into orbit, 3. Land on the Moon.’ 

Hackers on the moon? Promoting these crazy-sounding plans may be a way for older school hackers to steal back the spotlight from LulzSec and its sometimes meaningless website takedowns in 2011. Even their fellow hackers made fun of the group at the time of the assaults. ‘They were rampaging, and clearly not willing to stop,’ one hacker who calls himself Asherah told The New York Times last summer. ‘Despite the rumors, they’re not very accomplished hackers. They’re attention-drunk.'”

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