One of the drawbacks to world-wide publicity, is that the extra attention draws the interest of unsympathetic crowds as well as the intended audience. On September 10th, a group calling itself the Greek Security Team gained access to the computer network at CERN associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, and threw up a page (left) defacing the original. Opinions differ about the potential for even greater malicious damage and reports state that the Greek Security Team were simply making an example of the light security at what is ostensibly a technologically advanced Science Project site.

James Gillies, Head of Communication and CERN's spokesman, is quoted as saying: “We don’t know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. It appears to be people who want to make a point that CERN was hackable.”

Here's the link Technology Review's excellent Photo Essay of CERN's Hadron Collider, the photos were all taken before the launch of the project last Wednesday.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20588/