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Boy of 17 hacks into missile secrets
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| 6/14/02
| Standard Foreign News Desk
Posted on 06/14/2002 8:50:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SerpentDove
It is so sad it makes you laugh.
To: Tai_Chung
"But Al Gore invented the internet"
Its all his fault for not forseeing the monster he created.
To: Rebelbase
"Cracking into the Pentagon was child's play," said the teenager. "Lookit what the missile does when I push this button!"
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posted on
06/14/2002 10:01:36 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: All
Markus was able to get into the most classified Pentagon sitesI find this very hard to believe. I think it's overblown rhetoric. Classified and unclassified networks are physically separated. I'd like to know how a hacker overcomes that, short of tapping into a line. Undoubtedly the kid got into a sensitive area he wasn't supposed to, but the nation's deepest, darkest secrets? I eagerly await more information on this story.
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posted on
06/14/2002 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
Coop
To: Coop
Me too. Missile silo locations are not hard to see from the air. I was not even aware that the locations themselves were classified. I think this is an overblown news story.
To: Rebelbase
This is an inexcusable security breach. Computers with classified information are forbidden from having a connection to the internet. The security officer in charge of the computer and network needs some serious prison time.
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posted on
06/14/2002 10:44:27 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Saturnalia
WOPR: Shall we play a game?The only winning move is not to play.
To: Rebelbase
If the "big boys" are being hacked, all too frequently, it is demonstrably dangerous to use the Internet as the information backbone of our society. How can you ever know for sure that your bank account, credit cards, medical records, etc. are safe if the "pros" can't keep out a teen-aged hacker? How can the average user really prove and know his firewall is secure? Are the security company whiz kids really as sharp as they portray themselves? Internet security looks like an illusion.
To: Rebelbase
They should hire that kid.
To: Plumrodimus
He's a foreign national not an americans and this teenager needs a prison cell.
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posted on
06/15/2002 2:29:38 PM PDT
by
bok
To: GingisK
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? I have gone into business peddling my patented Jet Cooling Gel. It gives fast, fast, fast relief from newspaper stories about subjects that most newspaper reporters wouldn't know from Shinola. It prevents high blood pressure and possible heart attack when journalists with liberal arts degrees start writing about highly technical subjects that are out of their league. I think you need a tube. It will tide you over until we find out what this kid actually found out. If it's that there are missile silos in North Dakota, we could all cool our jets a bit. |
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