Hacker fears 'UFO cover-up'

[lovuian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4977134.stm

In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks.
He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology.

America now wants to put him on trial, and if tried there he could face 60 years behind bars

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Transcript
Spencer Kelly: Here's your list of charges: you hacked into the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Department of Defense, and Nasa, amongst other things. Why?

Gary McKinnon: I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology. I think it's the biggest kept secret in the world because of its comic value, but it's a very important thing.

Old-age pensioners can't pay their fuel bills, countries are invaded to award oil contracts to the West, and meanwhile secretive parts of the secret government are sitting on suppressed technology for free energy
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60 years is a pretty hefty sentence for a hacker... and he just proved how america's top agencies computer protection is riddled with holes...

[lvx35]

1. Hacker gets caught in retarded honey pot.

There's no way this guys's exploit (empty passwords) would have worked on high security machines, I don't know of an amateur linux sysadmin whose box is vulnerable to this. Its just silliness.

[pitohui]

2. we're all abt prosecuting the mentally ill

sheesh

they should fire the administrators who didn't put in passwords

this is hardly hacking, this is leaving the door to a vault wide open and the wind blowing the bank notes about and then wondering why someone picks up a few

it would be a waste of the tax dollar to prosecute this poor unfortunate

[walldude]

3. They'll probably give him a job.... n/t

[orleans]

6. and the medal of freedom! (don't forget that) n/t

[beam me up scottie]

4. And I'm sure he kept the evidence, right?

He must have had tons of it after two whole years.

Lemme guess, the photographs self destructed like the tape player in the original Mission Impossible series...

[pitohui]

5. yes read the link but yes that's what it said

not in words of one syllable but basically yeah

this man is mentally ill

he didn't hack anything

it is sad

[Cetacea]

7. real foward thinkers here!

Is this the fifties?
And the man is mentally ill because...why?

[Cetacea]

8. if someone tried hacking into Diebold..

70 percent of the population would consider that person mentally ill, based on claims of little black boxes that steal elections.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. I'm sure many will disagree but...

I believe that the US and British governments use alien technology in military aircraft. We went too fast in developing our technology. The massive technology jump was most apparent after the alleged Roswell craft. I also believe it is incredibly arrogant of the human race to believe that we are the only sentient beings in this universe and that we're the most advanced.

So yes, I admit it, I am a UFO conspiracist.

:tinfoilhat:

[Cetacea]

10. welcome to the majority.

I personally have spoken with 2 astronauts who had close encounters in space. Then there are all of the pilots, police, and people from all walks of life who have had encounters.
Is this thread for real?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Probably the thread is for real.

I personally saw what I belived to be a UFO and so did my father and his friends. I don't know of any triangular planes that will raise straight up out of a swamp down the Jersey shore then just shoot straight off.

[Lexingtonian]

12. I worry about the same thing.

Actually, let me restate that. I'm worried that the UFOs and technology we still have are insufficient to fly the Bush Administration back to their home planet Zoltar. Or whatever planet it is. Hell, if they simply fly into the sun or an asteriod, that's fine with me too.