Wednesday, July 27, 2005

The truth is still out there

Gary McKinnonA British citizen, Gary McKinnon, has been accused of committing the "biggest military computer hack of all time" by the U.S. government and he is fighting extradition to the U.S. If he is convicted, he can face up to 70 years in jail. He is accused of gaining entry into 97 U.S government computers including machines belonging to NASA and the Department of Defense. They also claim that he accessed passwords and deleted critical files from the Earle U.S. naval weapons station which crashed 300 computers for a day. McKinnon, in his defense, says that he only deleted files once, accidentally, and that he gained unauthorized access to military systems just to look for evidence of UFO conspiracies.
I wonder if he found anything.

3 Comments:

Blogger Saur♥Kraut said...

I know when I was in college I would've given anything to get a hacker to go in there and list some of the classes as already taken!

July 27, 2005 8:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hahaha..wouldnt we have all..

July 27, 2005 10:08 PM  
Blogger Fred said...

Heckuva defense. I hope he gets a good attorney. He'll need one.

July 28, 2005 6:03 PM  

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