the "biggest military computer hack of all time" (it gets weird)

[mr blur]

"Gary McKinnon has been accused of committing the 'biggest military computer hack of all time', and if extradited to the US faces up to 70 years in jail. So how did this techno geek from north London end up cracking open the Pentagon and Nasa's systems? He talks exclusively to Jon Ronson as he awaits his fate"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1523143,00.html

<snip>
What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask.

"I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."

"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.

"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."

"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.

"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."

</snip>

[lpbk2713]

1. Life sentence in Gitmo.

For divulging DoD secrets.

[Orsino]

4. Plus twenty for trying to sensationalize...

...a banal crime.

[Shell Beau]

2. Ooookay! Interesting!

:yoiks:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Militarization of space is under way. Do we have a dark side moon base

or what?

[DS1]

5. And it's full of Democrats - Operation Moonbats is a GO!

:D

[kick-ass-bob]

6. That guy is a freak.

And you will repeat after me if you know what's good for you...
:yoiks:

[MindPilot]

7. This guy doesn't deserve jail but...

Anybody dumb enough to set up a system with a blank admin password should be taken out and shot, if for no other reason than to get that kind of sub-par DNA out of the gene pool.

Edit: typos