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Posted on 06/14/2002 8:50:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
The Pentagon has had its second major intelligence embarrassment in a week after a teenager in Austria hacked into secret plans, including the location of US nuclear missiles.
The exploits of Markus Hirsch, 17, come only days after British surveillance enthusiast John Locker was able to hack into US spy satellite pictures.
Now an FBI team is on its way to Vienna to question Markus. Their big fear is that Osama bin Laden followers may have enjoyed similar access for months.
American protection of its secrets has never been higher since 11 September, with even the most conservative estimates saying at least £7billion has gone into bolstering security.
But from the computer in his bedroom, Markus was able to get into the most classified Pentagon sites, including the one which details the silos where missiles with multi-megaton warheads are kept.
"Cracking into the Pentagon was child's play," said the teenager. "I know my way round the internet."
Markus, who lived with his mother in Germany for a while when his parents split up, eventually moved into a small flat in Vienna where he now lives alone.
He added: "I don't know anyone here, apart from my granny, so I surf all night on the internet."
The future generation of cyber minds is going to be phoenominal to watch.
Likely FBI question
Would like like to work for the FBI?
(* Hint: if you say "no", we may charge you with 100 crimes that could send you to prison for the rest of your life.)
But Al Gore invented the internet.
We can only hope they are being "diverse" and teaching Muslims and Chinese students.
After those little glitches were made public, they changed the website sponsor's address to a cemetery in Denver, but left the White House phone number posted for several more weeks. No doubt Al was ignorant of that, too.
We can only hope they are being "diverse" and teaching Muslims and Chinese students. "
MIT taught nuclear engineering to Iranian students in the 70's. Tuition was a little higher for these visitors, though.
This deserves shouting:
Why would the locations of US missles be available on the Internet? Why the hell is info like that even near a hub that's even remotely connected to a public network?
What a pathetic, hysterical hype. John Locker did not do ANY hacking. He turned on his TV, turned his Big Ugly Dish to look at a commercial satellite, and found some surveillance cams feeding in the clear (unscrambled). If that's "hacking," then I have to hack into my car radio each afternoon to listen to Rush - or Dave Ramsey.
Michael
Not to worry. Just give the secret info to MSNBC and they'll BROADCAST IT - like they did the list of nuclear power facilities being guarded by troops with no mags in their weapons.
Of course, with THEIR ratings, putting something on MSNBC is the next best thing there is to Top Secret. NO-body watches.
Michael
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