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How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space (archive)
Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending. Had she bought a car? How could she afford that? Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Ms. Worden's spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to be part of NASA's first all-female spacewalk. But the couple's domestic troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space. Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple's still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged one with NASA's Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden's private financial records. Investigators from the inspector general's office have since contacted Ms. Worden and Ms. McClain, trying to get to the bottom of what may be the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.
[...] One potential issue that could arise with any criminal case or lawsuit over extraterrestrial bank communications, Mr. Sundahl said, is discovery: NASA officials would be wary of opening up highly sensitive computer networks to examination by lawyers, for example. But those sorts of legal questions, he said, are going to be inevitable as people spend more time in outer space.
Welcome to the divorce of tomorrow!
Also at Space.com.
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(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 29 2019, @06:13PM
this fatalism, ugh
all you have to do is tell people about it, you literally have to do nothing with a boycott. just say you agree with it, you don't want anything to do with this company, tell your friends.
although if someone were to post flyers about epstein and les wexner all over a victoria's secret, that would be effective activism get the idea across to other companies that having anything to do with people like epstein has PR consequences, at this point the notoriety may only help sales.
you should also notice, that even suggesting something like this kindof makes you a little scared, like if you do this, you will really cross some of the bad guys.
The question isn't so much whether you are going to do that or not at this point, it is are you going to let those of us who are hang out to dry. I am not the center of this, some reporters and police are who did the right thing, I am just responding as is only rational. This crap has gone too far and it threatens everything good in the world, it's not going to go away if everyone just goes meh and does their own thing.
Are you sure that your blah reaction is not some kind of sickness, because I frankly can't relate to your reaction.