16year old Boy Hacked In to NASA And The American Army

This happened a year ago and it doesn't appear he got much more than a weather forcast.

www.cnn.com...

Would i be correct in assuming that if you hacked in, and saved the info to a disk you would be rather safe?

Originally posted by Paladin327
Would i be correct in assuming that if you hacked in, and saved the info to a disk you would be rather safe?

how would you be safe they could just break the disk

I knew this one kid 17 yrs old, no formal computer training, hacked into DOD, Nasa and Australia Fed Police, just to prove he could do it - and the only way these companies found out was his Father made him confess to local police who then raised the alarm. You may be saying - 'Oh they were on to him' , Nope, he owned up 7 months later. They had no friggen idea.
Lucky for them he didn't have a harmless bone in his body.

I'm no expert but am familiar with certain systems and have worked with many brilliant minds - some people really do see beyond the code and any encryption methods used. These people genuinley are freaks. Not Geeks.

Nothing is safe, even at the bit level. Hence separate networks with no interconnection is the way to ultimately secure your data. Stand Alone is very popular but even then it comes down to employees and lets face it - humans aren't perfect.

\But then again, off site storage of backup data is another beast some choose to deal with.

There will always be someone better - I think thats important to remember and never to be underestimated.

And if he fond some thing. he probely will get killed by the goverment. and it never come out thet he did hack in to NASA and American Army database.
or maby they whane us to think that.

Don't be silly, he wouldn't be killed. He would just be thrown in prision for a very long time and with media suppression orders all over the place.

If he fond top secret Documents. and if the world Knowe aboutn it. The USA are History. they wil pobely kill him. so there secret cold be safe

So they're going to kill a high profile person?

Don't you think they would have done this with people such as Ames and the Walkers, if they did do it?

Maby just Deleted there The memory of what they fond. thets much easyer then killing

Their phyiscal memory?

Say what?

The Memory.. they can go in to your brain and Delete you memory of your. Exempel your 16th Berthday, your first kiss. your fond of secret documents whild Hacking in to the Americam army database. so you dont remeber the thing you have fond or donne
Understand??

No, they can't.

In fact, I'm not even sure where this is heading.

You do know Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith were playing fictional characters with fictional equipment right?

Originally posted by Jaychael
This happened a year ago and it doesn't appear he got much more than a weather forcast.

www.cnn.com...

thats for sure

and i think the whole thing is making a mountain out of a mole hill

consider this: from article Apocalypse Soon by Robert S MacNamara

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.......... The SAC commander's orders were to answer the phone ( the hotline to Moscow) no later than the third ring.
If it rang, and he was informed that a nuclear attack of enemy ballistic
missles appeared to be underway, he was allowed 2 to 3 minutes to decide if the warning was valid ((over the years, the United States has received many false alarms))......
source

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IMHO, it goes with the territory and isn't uncommon,
you can see from the above blurb that even the Strategic Air Command SAC
was attacked, or in todays language, 'Hacked'
by people interested in just seeing if they could enter those
secure/sensitive operations with technologies available

BTW, one of you all, informed the thread of the NYT article which pointed out that it was the Cisco Systems routers & servers that were hacked and that in turn spun into the sensitive agencies arena....
no-big-deal is my opinion