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Originally posted by liquidsmoke206
Free McKinnon!
OK there i was on topic.
What makes you so sure thats me in the pic? And even if it is, how could you possibly know the context. And who pays that much attention to avatars anyways. People have all kinds of crazy ones on here....where have you been?
Originally posted by Copernicus
This is off topic but all I see in that picture is a scared kid holding his teddy bear. I feel sorry for the guy, whomever it is, who thinks that kind of pose is cool. Its just tragic.
Originally posted by dooper
If anyone in the entire US Government has a hint of a brain cell, once they get McKinnon over here in the States, the NSA should offer him a job, doing what he apparently does very well. But doing it FOR the government, not looting their own little nests.
Originally posted by theresult
I knew someone!! lol who hacked hollywood.com for trailers, and he was so kind to send them an email to let them know how easy it was to bypass there.. you cant save our trailers stuff..
They sent him and email back saying thank you.
McKinnon has admitted to hacking into US military systems between 2001 and 2002, but says he should not be extradited to the US as he was only looking for hidden evidence of UFOs.
The US government says he caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to military computer systems.
McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, an autistic spectrum disorder that can lead to obsessive behaviour and poor social interaction.
His condition may be used to fight the extradition.
They should give him a job lol not lock him up.
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
I don't think in the end he will be extradited to the U.S ... and I doubt the U.S will ever present the evidence needed to convict him on the serious charges..because the amount of damage they claimed never happened..
Originally posted by Helig
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
I don't think in the end he will be extradited to the U.S ... and I doubt the U.S will ever present the evidence needed to convict him on the serious charges..because the amount of damage they claimed never happened..
Go back and read the excellent post that explains the cleanup process and all the man-hours involved, now consider that the people fixing this mess likely pull in 60 grand a year (28$/hr) its not hard to see how the magic number was hit when so many systems needed to be pull off-line and checked over with a fine tooth comb.
Originally posted by Edn
as the government has no one but themselves to blame for leaving there networks insecure.
"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask.
"I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."
"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.
"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."
"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.
"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."
"Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?"
"I guess so," says Gary.
"What were the ship names?"
"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."
Beginning in the mid-1980s, concurrent with the development of space operations and space engineering curricula at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Navy began “coding” officers as space subspecialists. As space subspecialty codes were then assigned to particular officers’ billets on numbered Fleet staffs and at commands ashore, the service began assigning Navy members with matching codes to those positions. More recently, the Navy has begun efforts to build a cadre of “space smart” officers, enlisted personnel and civilian employees.
The Naval Space Cadre is composed of active-duty and reserve Navy and Marine Corps officers and enlisted personnel, along with Navy civilian employees from a wide range of career fields who meet mandatory education, training and experience standards established for a particular certification level. The Navy Space Cadre is a distinct body of expertise horizontally and vertically integrated within Navy and Marine Corps active duty, reserves and civilian employee communities organized to operationalize space
Initial identification of the cadre began in mid-2001 with the standup of the Naval Space Cadre Working Group and culminated in a naval message (NAVADMIN 201/03 DTG211435Z JUL 03) announcing the first 700 officer members of the cadre. These officers were identified by the subspecialty codes of 6206, Space Systems Operations, and 5500, Space Systems Engineering or by the additional qualification designator of VS1, VS2, VS3 or VS4. Identification of enlisted and civilian cadre members is more challenging, as these groups do not have specif?ic space identifiers like the officers do.
Approximately 265 billets are currently identified as space billets. These jobs are in Navy, joint and National Security Space organizations. Space cadre members are currently assigned throughout the National Security Space arena, including the National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Space Architect, National Security Space Integration, MILSATCOM Joint Program Office, as well as in all Navy organizations that deal with space.
Originally posted by atsbeliever
What a load of B.s. there's no way he caused that much damage I doubt he's that capable. He walked straight thru their unlocked doors. They probably had someone do the damage on purpose so they could make it even worse to show the media 'look how bad he was' Im not buying, sorry.
Originally posted by Helig
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
I don't think in the end he will be extradited to the U.S ... and I doubt the U.S will ever present the evidence needed to convict him on the serious charges..because the amount of damage they claimed never happened..
Go back and read the excellent post that explains the cleanup process and all the man-hours involved, now consider that the people fixing this mess likely pull in 60 grand a year (28$/hr) its not hard to see how the magic number was hit when so many systems needed to be pull off-line and checked over with a fine tooth comb.
Originally posted by OldMedic
Yep, another criminal (and he is a criminal) who claims to have discovered some secret AFTER he got caught.
He found NOTHING, he just went in and damaged computer SYSTEMS, NOT COMPUTERS.
Stop making excuses for criminals! I do not give a damn what his motives were, or how mentlly disturbed he is,(*SNIP*) this does NOT excuse his criminal conduct.
He frankly deserves whatever he gets. And people that make excuses for such criminal behavior should lose their computers too.
[edit on 5-12-2008 by NGC2736]