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	Whatup (nasa.gov)
	223 points by makwarth 3713 days ago

19 comments

BuildTheRobots 3713 days ago

Host Europe Group's robots.txt still makes me chuckle: http://mirrors.uk.heg.com/robots.txt

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beachwood23 3713 days ago

Asiimov's Three Laws of Robotics, right?

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ssunstruck 3713 days ago

yes

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tyingq 3713 days ago

Prompted me to do a little experimentation with google query parameters. Some potentially concerning stuff out there...

This one seems offline, but a typical example:

ftp://asapdata.arc.nasa.gov/incoming/BOB/HyspIRI/data-bob/00_README.MASTERweb_updating.txt

  3. Login to MASTER database:
    http://asterdb.jpl.nasa.gov/log/dbstart.asp

  a. User: eric; Password: Upd8t3r

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mkagenius 3713 days ago

Would you mind sharing the google query? Getting to this with a google query seems magical!

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tyingq 3713 days ago

https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/ gives some more tips.

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rollulus 3713 days ago

"user * password *" site:nasa.gov filetype:txt

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

And I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.nackerhews.com/item?id=11549946

But that's pretty bad!

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davesque 3713 days ago

Maybe it's on their intranet? It doesn't seem to be accessible.

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davesque 3713 days ago

Nevermind, just got to it :P.

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

Are you sure that's a good idea? This seems to be something to do with flight paths and the Ames research centre...

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davesque 3712 days ago

Didn't log in. Don't want to. Just wanted to see if the URL returned anything.

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mpnordland 3713 days ago

Seems like it's working to me, what do you mean by offline?

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

And all of a sudden the FBI has a lot of IP addresses to follow-up...

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mpnordland 3710 days ago

I should note that I did alert the sysadmin and he told me he was taking it down and would figure out how to secure it.

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PaulHoule 3713 days ago

Whohoo! NASA makes a web page that is smaller than the software that took Apollo to the moon.

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kevincox 3713 days ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20160422155210/https://www.nasa....

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faide 3713 days ago

Can someone explain the purpose of this page? I'm feeling a little out of the loop at the moment...

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Forbo 3713 days ago

I'm sorry you received downvotes for asking a question.

Based on the url (test.html), I would imagine this was just someone's quick one-off attempt to see if something worked that ended up getting left behind.

Edit: Looks like this was already answered downthread in the time that I took reading the comments. Whoops.

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capote 3713 days ago

whatup

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

No, really... what is the point of this page?

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Kluny 3713 days ago

Probably someone testing their server configuration and forgot to remove it.

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

It seems like it's not really all that interesting...

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Kluny 3713 days ago

Interesting enough for you to spend 5 minutes of your life commenting. I agree that it's a bit low on nutrition though. Funny to see stuff like this once in a while, but I wouldn't want the front page to get clogged up with this kind of nonsense.

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capote 3712 days ago

Did you really need someone to explain the purpose of a file called test.html? Seems like the filename explains it.

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joeyyang 3713 days ago

It's about Updog!

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Cshelton 3713 days ago

I'd say the test ran optimally.

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ohitsdom 3713 days ago

Nominally.

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orky56 3713 days ago

Absolutely!

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percept 3713 days ago

WaaS

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andrewstuart2 3713 days ago

"We used to spend time thinking about uptime and hardware costs for our silly test pages. No more!"

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mkagenius 3713 days ago

Whatup as a service?

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noobermin 3713 days ago

Why did they bother to wrap it in a <div> tag but have no body or even html tag?

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dennisnedry 3713 days ago

Because it's still somewhat structured instead of not structured?

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capote 3713 days ago

Why not a <span> or a <dingleberry> then? I think this is the key thing to discuss here.

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brooklyndavs 3713 days ago

<blink>whatup</blink>

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Ambrosia 3713 days ago

><dingleberry>

Now that's semantic html

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kevando 3713 days ago

So I have the same testing plan as astronauts?

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chris_wot 3713 days ago

Only if you are developing in space.

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devy 3713 days ago

I like rfc2812 style convo better, like the one used in Redis PING: http://redis.io/commands/ping

Updated: to reflect eli's help on origin of command style. Btw, why did someone down-vote me on this?

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eli 3713 days ago

That command sequence is much older than Redis: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812#page-37

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devy 3713 days ago

Thanks for the reference.

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asimuvPR 3713 days ago

Who would I contact to make a nasa related html5 game for that page? Anybody from nasa here?

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hawkice 3713 days ago

Now it 404s. Good while it lasted.

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6stringmerc 3713 days ago

For now, the sun, later, the moon.

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orky56 3713 days ago

It's all coplanar in the solar system so let's go with the traditional answer, "the sky."

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6stringmerc 3713 days ago

Truth be told that was the original response I was going to go with, and it just felt a little off. However, it is indeed quite accurate. 5 year old me would approve.

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robotnoises 3713 days ago

Only 191 bytes, nice job NASA.

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koolba 3713 days ago

Ha! My initial reaction at the combination of "Whatup" and .gov TLD[1] was that this is a government sanctioned WhatsApp replacement.

[1]: That is before realizing that it's nasa.gov

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soperj 3713 days ago

That would be one without encryption...

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koolba 3713 days ago