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originally posted by: Cauliflower
Gary Mckinnon was doing all his investigating from the UK in the early 90's so:
The machines in question were connected to the internet as .mil .org .etc domains.
There were lots of Unix boxes that were left with default passwords for root and administrative levels.
Telnet port 23 was left open in those days and file sharing was done under the honor system before that became abused.
The server stats were easy to find and could be used to explore limitless resources in many different countries.
There were people on the Joint Academic Network sharing (classified) military/space/science projects that were not to be exposed by the Main Stream Media. You could publish stuff using ghost to keep it away from the bots.
And far as hitting the wrong key (B flat) and wiping half the files off a NASA server, don't you hate when that happens?
So what is project "Gary Mckinnon" really about?
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
a reply to: obscurepanda
I told a colleague that I thought he had
mastered a certain training program
and that he hadn't let it go to his
head.
I should have said mostly mastered and
mostly hadn't gone to his head.
But instead he took my 'blessing' and
now thinks he's this super evolved
form of life; sort of a mixture of
Jesus and all the archangels
put together.
I imagine he'd have gone off his
rocker no matter what, but it
grieves me what he has become;
And I can't "talk him off the ledge"
so to speak.
Words can be powerful and have
unintended results.
Kev
originally posted by: obscurepanda
a reply to: Paperjacket
Actually, he does Web Search Optimization for businesses nowadays. Think he charges like 40 quid an hour.
but that from what I know of technology, his story (as I've read here) doesn't add up.