poor bastard...alittle harsh..no?

easyontheeye

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Nasa-Computer-Hacker-Gary-McKinnon-To-Hear-Extradition-Ruling/Article/200807415059752?lpos=Technology_4&lid=ARTICLE_15059752_Nasa%2BComputer%2BHacker%2BGary%2BMcKinnon%2BTo%2BHear%2BExtradition%2BRuling


be interesting to see how this plays out....

BKtje

Very harsh really but his reasons for cracking into US government websites seems a little weak to me.

easyontheeye

hmmm yeah, looking for UFO's! i'd say he was just trying to see if it could be done!

unnameduser

Surely this guys abilities could be put better use rather than throwing him into jail

BKtje

Perhaps that is why the US wants him, threaten him with jail time or come work for us

Khannie

"from his London home."

Complete noob tbh. That's really f***ing amateur hour.

edit: The proposed sentence is absolutely _ridiculous_ though.

B-K-DzR

B-K-DzR wrote: »

Perhaps that is why the US wants him, threaten him with jail time or come work for us

+1

Anti

Thats what usually happens with good hackers, the government or large multi national corps buy them up to work as a white and not black/grey hat.

easyontheeye

but was he a good hacker? or did he get lucky, id love to know how he managed it, how do you even begin to attempt something like that

Standard Toaster

He's from the UK....doubt he'll be rid that hard by the US.

McKinnon (Appellant) v Government of the United States of America (Respondents) and another

Wikipedia wrote:

In an interview televised on the BBC's Click programme,[9] he claimed that he was able to get into the military's networks simply by using a Perl script that searched for blank passwords; in other words his report suggests that there were computers on these networks with the default passwords active.

Hacker?

Deadeyes

unnameduser wrote: »

Surely this guys abilities could be put better use rather than throwing him into jail

but this guy has no abilities, using a perl script to scan for systems with blank passwords is hardly l33t, or whatever the phrase is.
I really love the figures they come up with for the monetry cost of such "hacking". They're worse than RIAA.

MunsterCycling

Laughable, just shows what pathetic security the US use on their systems and make us all pay for their ineptitude.

MC

John_Mc

Deadeyes wrote: »

but this guy has no abilities, using a perl script to scan for systems with blank passwords is hardly l33t, or whatever the phrase is.
I really love the figures they come up with for the monetry cost of such "hacking". They're worse than RIAA.

How do you know how he went about doing it?

Anti

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