Espionage In Icelandic Parliament 274
bumburumbi writes "An unauthorised computer, apparently running encrypted software, was found hidden inside an unoccupied office in the Icelandic Parliament, Althingi, connected to the internal network. According to the Reykjavik Grapevine article, serial numbers had been removed and no fingerprints were found. The office had been used by substitute MPs from the Independence Party and The Movement, the Parliamentary group of Birgitta Jonsdottir, whose Twiiter account was recently subpoenaed by US authorities. The Icelandic daily Morgunbladid, under the editorship of Mr David Oddsson, former Prime Minister and Central Bank chief, has suggested that this might be an operation run by Wikileaks. The reporter for the Reykjavik Grapevine, Mr Paul Nikolov is a former substitute MP, having taken seat in Parliament in 2007 and 2008."
Re:Rogue servers (Score:5, Funny)
I love reading the stories posted by the readership about all of the odd systems found stuck in closets and under desks which nobody knows what are doing.
Well, with regard to Congress, there are roughly 535 of them at any given time.
Re:Running encrypted software? (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer placebo encryption. I tell people its encrypted and any methods they try to decrypt it wont work.
It looks like donkey porn, but I can't decrypt it into the military secrets I know it must be!
Re:Rogue servers (Score:5, Funny)
I love reading the stories posted by the readership about all of the odd systems found stuck in closets and under desks which nobody knows what are doing.
Well, with regard to Congress, there are roughly 535 of them at any given time.
Actually, it's the interns that are under the desks.
But lots of CongressCritters still in the closet, I trow.
Re:Rogue servers (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite is the opposite. It was a unix server at a university that none knew where was physically, but that was happily doing its thing for the network. Eventually they found it by following the network cabling and knocking down a drywall.
Re:Rogue servers (Score:3, Funny)