How Did a 15 Year Old Hack NASA?
JONATHAN 👶 JAMES DIDN’T 🚫 HACK NASA 💻🚀 FOR THE LOLS 😂 — HE DID IT TO STOP 🛑 THE INTERGALACTIC ✨ SATELLITE 🌌 COUNCIL 🧠 FROM ACTIVATING 🕹 THE GLOBAL 🍞 TOAST PROTOCOL 🍞🔥🔥
in 1999 (yes that’s 1999, NOT 2000 😳), a child 👦 with a 56k dial-up modem 🔌📞 CONNECTED TO GOD ☁ AND GOD WAS HOSTING HIS EMAIL ON NASA’S SERVERS 😭😭😭
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU 🐸 THAT A TEENAGER 👦🏽 SNUCK INTO NASA 🛰 JUST TO PLAY DOOM 👹 ON THE SPACE STATION COMPUTERS 💾⁉⁉
🚨 WAKE UP PEOPLE 🚨 — HIS NAME WASN’T EVEN JONATHAN JAMES. IT WAS ACRONYM FOR:
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Joint Orbital Node Access Terminal Heuristic Autonomous Nullifier 😵💫🤖
HE 👁 WAS A TEST ‼ BY THE GOVERNMENT 🏛 TO SEE IF A KID COULD BREAK REALITY 🧠 THROUGH AOL INSTANT MESSENGER 💬👾
THEY SAID: “DON’T TOUCH THE FILE NAMED SATELLITE_CONFIG_BACKUP_FINAL_FINAL_REAL_ONE_v2.EXE” 😰
SO HE DOWNLOADED IT TWICE 😭😭😭
NO ONE 😤 KNEW FOR DAYS.
NASA WAS LIKE:
"why is the International Space Station streaming LimeWire music??" 🎵🛸
ANSWER: JONATHAN. 👾👊
THEY 💀 CAUGHT HIM BECAUSE A PRINTER WENT OFF 🖨 IN A BASEMENT 💀 SAYING “I’M INSIDE. -J”
✨🧃HOW DID HE DO IT??🧃✨
HE RAN A CUSTOM SCRIPT NAMED NasaDestroyer420.bat
IT WAS JUST:
ping nasa.gov -t
AND SOMEHOW IT WORKED 😭😭😭😭😭
HIS PUNISHMENT??
THEY GAVE HIM A MEDAL 🥇 LABELED "DO NOT GIVE THIS KID ADMIN AGAIN"
AND THEN HE VANISHED INTO THE 🌫FOG🌫
THE FOG IS COMING 🛰
AND THIS TIME, IT'S USING DIAL-UP ☎
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED 😳