Posted on 12/22/2007 10:40:11 PM PST by chronic cough 420
A UK hacker who broke into dozens of US military computers to find secret evidence of alien life and technology faces up to 70 years in a US prison.
The 40-year-old unemployed systems administrator faces charges of attacking 97 US military and NASA computers between 2001 and 2002. If found guilty, he could face up to 70 years in prison and may even be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect.
Gary McKinnon will lodge what is likely to be his final appeal against extradition on February 13 next year at London's Court of Appeal. He lost his first appeal against extradition in a High Court hearing last July, but was given leave to take his case to a higher court. If that fails to overturn the extradition order signed by UK Home Secretary John Reid in July, McKinnon's only remaining option to avoid a US trial will be to appeal to the House of Lords. McKinnon is not optimistic of his chances following the Lords' refusal to intervene in the extradition of the NatWest Three, who were extradited to the US in July as part of a £11.5m fraud investigation connected with the collapsed energy giant Enron.
McKinnon has admitted accessing computer systems in the US, including those cited in a US indictment against him. He wanted to find evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology and government suppression of ‘Free Energy', all of which he claims to have gained evidence of through his activities.
In an interview with the BBC, McKinnon said he got into the networks quite easily, simply by using a Perl script that searched for blank passwords. Embarrassingly for the US military, that means computers in the top-secret networks could be hacked using active default passwords.
Unsurprisingly, McKinnon wants to be tried in the UK because he says the crimes were committed on UK soil. He also says he did not damage the systems he trespassed on.
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Idle hands are the devils playground.
He wanted to find evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology and government suppression of ‘Free Energy'
It also seems that an idle mind has time to dwell on idiotic conspiracy theories.
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>>>The 40-year-old unemployed systems administrator faces charges of attacking 97 US military and NASA computers between 2001 and 2002.
When Columbia exploded, there was mention of a hacker. Related?
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Unemployeed doesn’t me he wasn’t contracted. Just saying, that could be a play on words.
Did not know if you were interested in NASA related material for your aero ping list.
Why are troll and call the kitties being added to the keywords?
Doesn’t anyone find it interesting that this guy, Gary McKinnon, was hacking into NASA the same time Columbia blew?
pinging this for the NASA being hacked reference.
You sound grossly ignorant of what he FOUND.
My FRiend, if this person was invading America’s classified data then no one should know what he found.
There’s more than trainloads of evidence
that
a LOT of the data related to such things
is more or less blatantly illegal in terms of the motives and uses it has been long put to.
not to mention the wholesale illegal activities it’s been hiding on the part of the elites running that show.
Do you actually personally believe
that it SHOULD be legal to hide deliberate complicity
in hapless human victims being picked up . . .
having an eye, genitals, rectums, a jaw gored out with inhuman precision and then drained of blood
all without anesthesia and while the person is alive as long as possible?
Are you personally of the opinion that thousands of people SHOULD have been killed just because they casually expressed some disapproval about what they’d seen or participated in?
Are you personally of the opinion that deliberately withhoding super cheap, clean energy from the world’s populace
strictly to enable the elites to get unfathomably rich to advance their GLOBAL TYRANNICAL GOV SCHEMES
AND TO WITH CENTRALIZED POWER AND ENERGY CONTINUE TO TIGHTEN THE SCREWS ON CONTROLLING THE SERFS . . . are you of the personal opinion that doing such is all fine and hunkyk dory?
If so, I’m not sure what you’re doing on FREE Republic.
I’ve worked in TOP-SECRET CRYPTO jobs.
I mostly support SOME secrecy and do not trade with Toshiba because they sold sub propeller secrets to the soviets.
But I have read enough and seen enough to also know that tons of what is classified is done so to cover the rears of some very ugly evil people.
He's got about as much chance of being sent to Gitmo as he does of being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame. A coupla years in Levenworth, he gets his teeth fixed, bulks up and learns the difference between a forward lateral and a suicide squeeze. All-in-all, it'd do him a world of good. He might even learn to pronounce his haitches.
BTW, you evidently are also unware . . .
that one of the very telling things he found was a
list of officers
IN THE OFF EARTH/OTHER PLANET ASTRONAUT CORPS—as in the secret corps—NOT the space station corps.
And to the 4th astronaut from that corps that died with Grissom who’s family was reportedly paid off to keep silent.
Lends some credit to those who insist that we have bases on the moon, Mars . . .
time will tell.
I think this extradition business is mostly affirming how fiercely the elites are determined to hold onto their globalist monopoly on exhotic technologies
and especially
HOLD ONTO
!!!!CONTROL!!! OF THE SERFS.
Otherwise, nothing serious was compromised in terms of the national security of the US of A.
The elites have traitorously sold us down the river a trillion times what the hacker did. He was mostly a curious careless fellow.
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