[hawaiian]

WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE, FOLKS.

[Poohbah]

Hell, I know where US nuclear missiles are located. I went to the library and read this thing called a "book."

[CholeraJoe]

including the location of US nuclear missiles.

BFD. All you need to figure that out here in Montana is an SUV with a full tank of gas. If you drive in any direction from Great Falls, you can see the silos off the side of the road. The barbed wire fences with signs that say, "Restricted Area. Use of deadly force authorized" are a dead giveaway.

[demlosers]

BS!

Relax
I doubt if this boy cracked anything classified. Since I have work with classified DOD computer systems before, the good stuff doesn't even touch the Internet. Getting by the crypto is not "childs play."

He may have seen some stuff he thought was classified, or it was classified on an unclassified computer, in which some fool could get in trouble for.

And the other thing about the guy seeing raw video feed from Bosnia, The pentagon said it was intended to go unsecure.

The source for this story seems suspect to me.

[CholeraJoe]

In follow up to #41 here is a shot of a missle silo in Montana from Terraserver.

It's the square patch in the middle. That's I-15 running next to it.

[Straight Vermonter]

Geez with Windows 2000 I have a hell of a time accessing the computers I am supposed to be on!

[Spruce]

If I recall correctly; the military stopped using the public internet for comminication well over 10 years ago. The only .mil sites on the internet as we know it contain no sensitive data. I suspect the kid hacked into a trap.

[_Jim]

"It Was Child's Play."

Yes it was child's play - because hacking tools have gotten easier to use to the point where an idiot (as proof here and drivers on our nation's roads and highways demonstrates) can do it ...

[ibme]

I see absolutely no serious attempts to stop hackers. If you have DSL or Cable, someone will be banging on your computer all day long.

I think that firewalls should automatically report all unauthorized attempted entries to a central database with date, time and port number. After a while, there would be a trail of where these twerps are coming from. ISPs could be alerted that their systems are being abused and with date, time and port numbers a lot of the twerps could be pinpointed. There are some attempts now to store data on spammers.

It would bust the training wheels off of the less tricky hackers.

There is a firewall software for Macs that sends reports back to ISPs that unauthorized port scans are coming from, that's a good start.

[OldFriend]

Let this child play in JAIL where he belongs.

[a_Turk]

Give the kid a scholarship..

Then stop flying by the seat of your pants and calling it freedom.

[JSteff]

The British guy did not hack, the images are being broadcast on commercial satellites. As to the kid, I wonder how much of those types of hacks are actually misinformation being allowed by the military.

[lawdog]

Yeah, they need more money etc. so they can "protect us". God help us !

[agitator]

I find this difficult to believe.