This guy is a gem. Hopefully they'll get him for trial here in the US.
A Briton facing extradition to America for perpetrating "the biggest computer hack of all time" left a message criticising American foreign policy on an army computer, a court heard yesterday.
Gary McKinnon, 39, is accused of accessing 97 US government computers, causing damage estimated at $700,000 (£370,000).An extradition hearing at Bow Street magistrates' court was told that McKinnon, of Wood Green, north London, deleted files that shut down more than 2,000 computers in the US army's military district of Washington for 24 hours "significantly disrupting governmental function".
It was claimed he left a note on an army computer in 2002 saying US foreign policy was "akin to government-sponsored terrorism". The note allegedly said: "It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am Solo. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels."
On the other side of this, when is the friggin' military going to learn how to secure vital systems? Sorry, but if it is a vital system, there shouldn't be any access to the web, period. Intercommunications between the systems can be secured using IPSec and all networks secured to only allow encrypted incoming traffic. This isn't rocket science here, this technology exists and can be easily implemented.
As for the human factor, that can be worked on as well. Anyone creating an illegal back door into the system should be tried and sentenced to making big rocks into little rocks in Kansas.
As for the human factor, that can be worked on as well. Anyone creating an illegal back door into the system should be tried and sentenced to making big rocks into little rocks in Kansas.
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