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Sep 15, 2008, 06:33AM

Seriously, this is disturbing.

We here at Splice tend to dismiss the various hysterics surrounding CERN's Large Hadron Collider. But word has come out that a group of hackers not only made their way into the Geneva facility's network, but also mocked the IT team responsible for it. And, just for ironic kicks: the Internet was invented at CERN.

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Calling themselves the Greek Security Team, the interlopers mocked the IT used on the project, describing the technicians responsible for security as "a bunch of schoolkids."

However, despite an ominous warning "don't mess with us," the hackers said they had no intention of disrupting the work of the atom smasher.

"We're pulling your pants down because we don't want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes," they wrote in Greek in a rambling note posted on the LHC's network.

The scientists behind the £4.4 billion "Big Bang" machine had already received threatening emails and been besieged by telephone calls from worried members of the public concerned by speculation that the machine could trigger a black hole to swallow the earth, or earthquakes and tsunamis, despite endless reassurances to the contrary from the likes of Prof Stephen Hawking.

The website - www.cmsmon.cern.ch - can no longer be accessed by the public as a result of the attack.

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