[CNN] Nasa Science competition hacked...

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Three teenagers came up with an innovative way to clean lead-contaminated drinking water in public schools -- an idea so smart it made the finals of NASA's coveted nationwide high-school science competition.
The trio -- the only all-female, all-black group in the finals -- engineered a filter that purifies drinking water in old public-school buildings by detecting impurities such as chlorine, copper, and bromine.
But when NASA opened the contest to online voting, users from 4chan, the image-based online bulletin board, launched a campaign to hack the results, forcing NASA to shut down the voting.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/03/us/black-teens-nasa-science-competition-4chan-hackers-trnd/index.html
 
From the 'chan.


!! OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AHEAD...
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They used an SQL injection to "hack" it. Honestly, if you don't sanitize the inputs to your database, you deserve your fate. There is no excuse for it nowadays...


As for their "innovative" way of filtering water.
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"The trio -- the only all-female, all-black group in the finals"

Once again, segregating themselves...go figure!
 
4chan losers gonna 4chan.

ginggs said:
They convert amino-oxidanide into water?

It's a miracle!
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What were the other entries? Almost none of these high-school competion entries are 100% unique.

What do you expect teenagers with no budget and expertise to make that hasn't already been thought of by billion-dollar R&D departments loaded with PhDs?
 
not very clever for a bunch of clever people.

or was it done on purpose to rig the results, but then 4chan :p
 
Knyro said:
What were the other entries? Almost none of these high-school competion entries are 100% unique.
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Other entries are here.
https://opsparc.gsfc.nasa.gov/finalists-grades-9-12/

The point of a high school science competition is to demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method. Saying that, standard for all these projects is laughably low. None of those projects demonstrate any of the processes they use.

The Eskom science expo projects are of significantly higher quality IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeOySw-6ii_I9WD1ufl_D9Q/videos

Knyro said:
What do you expect teenagers with no budget and expertise to make that hasn't already been thought of by billion-dollar R&D departments loaded with PhDs?
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I would expect them to be able to spell hose correctly for a start....
 
ForceFate said:
They're just a bunch of high school kids and not post graduates from MIT
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[video=youtube;HZEA9Jpucws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEA9Jpucws[/video]

Funny how high school kids from South Africa demonstrate a better understanding of science than kids in the US.
 
konfab said:
[video=youtube;HZEA9Jpucws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEA9Jpucws[/video]

Funny how high school kids from South Africa demonstrate a better understanding of science than kids in the US.
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Did you watch their demonstration? Article doesn't claim they're the best US has to offer.


/coughcough
 
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konfab said:
I did.

I don't think their "filter" would be any better than a gravity feed filter. That electric fan is doing absolutely nothing.
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Granted, but as I pointed out, they're not the best US schools have to offer.
 
konfab said:
So why are they in the competition?
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Why are any of them in the competition? They're probably are indeed the best entries for this competition.

Not like the US has any shortage of high-school science fairs.
 
konfab said:
I did.

I don't think their "filter" would be any better than a gravity feed filter. That electric fan is doing absolutely nothing.
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Its a fan dude, it cools the water for drinking:whistle:
 
Perhaps it was 4chan who hacked Joy Reid's blog

MSNBC’s Joy Reid is standing by her claim that her now-defunct blog was the target of a cyberattack in which homophobic content was added to the site.

A cybersecurity expert working with Reid said in a statement to HuffPost on Tuesday that he found evidence five months ago of “suspicious activity” and that the alleged hacking was the subject of an ongoing federal investigation. Jonathan Nichols, identified as an independent security consultant by a representative of MSNBC, said the posts in question had been “entered with suspicious formatting and time stamps.”
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/entry/joy-reid-homophobic-blog_us_5adf9e1ce4b07560f39654a4

Then again maybe not

MSNBC's Joy Reid Says, "I Genuinely Do Not Believe I Wrote Those Hateful Things"

The host says she doesn't think she wrote the posts, but admits they don't seem to have been hacked.
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