The truth is still out there
July 27th, 2005
A 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.
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Aslong as there are databases and computer networks there will always be curious hackers. It’s a tough call… will sentencing him prevent future hacking into these systems? Sure by him, but there are so many more people willing to fill his shoes and see if they too can do it. I say give the guy a job and let him do some good with his mind.
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Excellent link by the way Karna!
I wonder if anything he found was worth it… I don’t know, I guess it’s a tough call. I think Dumas has the right idea about giving the guy a job to do some good.But I guess they might feel like that would come too close to condoning his actions.
By the way Ajay, thanks for all your comments! I really appreciate it
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