[Rebelbase]

""Cracking into the Pentagon was child's play," said the teenager. "I know my way round the internet." "

The future generation of cyber minds is going to be phoenominal to watch.

[Rebelbase]

This came from Drudge, and I could not find that it has already been posted.

[lavaroise]

I hope they won't punish that little hero who is telling us where the flaws are at.

[zarf]

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?

[Loc123]

Hire that boy DoD!!!

[Tai_Chung]

Now an FBI team is on its way to Vienna to question Markus.

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.)

[SerpentDove]

I read a post the other day where MIT is giving courses in hacking.

We can only hope they are being "diverse" and teaching Muslims and Chinese students.

[Saturnalia]

WOPR: Shall we play a game?

[robertpaulsen]

But don't worry. The National ID Card data base will be much more secure.

[Wright is right!]

"The exploits of Markus Hirsch, 17, come only days after British surveillance enthusiast John Locker was able to hack into US spy satellite pictures."

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

[widgysoft]

won't be long till a five year old is hacking on to govt computers.

[Ken H]

"Cracking into the Pentagon was child's play," said the teenager. "Lookit what the missile does when I push this button!"

[Myrddin]

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.

[TexasRepublic]

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.

[Plumrodimus]

They should hire that kid.