A hacker group attacked and struck down servers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory just hours after the Columbia space shuttle was lost, according to a London-based security company. The attack, allegedly pulled off by a group calling itself the Trippin Smurfs, temporarily staggered nine servers running on the Sun Solaris operating system, according to a report issued by mi2g, a security firm based in England. The attack was fired off as a protest against the U.S.’s position on Iraq.

When I first read this, I thought "They is trippin’. It can’t be true." After a moment’s pause… I thought this was a disrespectful thing to do after a tragedy. As bad a worm? I don’t know, but not something I would brag about if I were a hacker.