British hacker, interested in UFOs, shines 60 years in prison
A British hacker who hacked into US military computers in search of evidence for the existence of a UFO, lost the extradition case in the London High Court of Justice.
A spokesman for the High Court said that Gary McKinnon, the same hacker, could appeal the decision in the House of Lords (the upper house of the British parliament).
The Briton is charged with data deletion and unauthorized receipt of information from 97 NASA computers and the US military between February 2001 and March 2002. He was charged with 60 years in prison in the US District Court of Virginia.
McKinnon appealed the decision to extradite to the States in May 2006. Then his lawyer used as one of the arguments that McKinnon could go to Guantanamo prison, accused by the Americans of terrorism, but British Home Secretary John Reid rejected the appeal, but McKinnon filed it again.
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He fully agrees that he has penetrated computers, but says that he never did any harm to the American authorities. Nevertheless, his "entertainment" cost the Americans $ 700,000.
McKinnon said he used hacked computers when nobody worked in the US. But once a pseudo-hacker apparently incorrectly estimated the time difference and climbed to a remote computer that was already in use. Thus, the employee noticed the self-moving cursor and McKinnon was soon caught.
By the way, at a security conference in London last year, McKinnnon told that on many computers to which he got access, a remotely administrated program “RemotelyAnywhere” was installed with default passwords.
A spokesman for the High Court said that Gary McKinnon, the same hacker, could appeal the decision in the House of Lords (the upper house of the British parliament).
The Briton is charged with data deletion and unauthorized receipt of information from 97 NASA computers and the US military between February 2001 and March 2002. He was charged with 60 years in prison in the US District Court of Virginia.
McKinnon appealed the decision to extradite to the States in May 2006. Then his lawyer used as one of the arguments that McKinnon could go to Guantanamo prison, accused by the Americans of terrorism, but British Home Secretary John Reid rejected the appeal, but McKinnon filed it again.
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He fully agrees that he has penetrated computers, but says that he never did any harm to the American authorities. Nevertheless, his "entertainment" cost the Americans $ 700,000.
McKinnon said he used hacked computers when nobody worked in the US. But once a pseudo-hacker apparently incorrectly estimated the time difference and climbed to a remote computer that was already in use. Thus, the employee noticed the self-moving cursor and McKinnon was soon caught.
By the way, at a security conference in London last year, McKinnnon told that on many computers to which he got access, a remotely administrated program “RemotelyAnywhere” was installed with default passwords.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/6232/
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