Comments on: UFO hacker McKinnon loses appeal

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:54:59 +0000

Hey - since you’re into UFOs, have you seen this Roswell video?
www.flownetworkproductions.com/evidenceofaliens.htm I thought it was fake until I watched Part 2. What do you think?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:31:59 +0000

I must admit that I usually have an antiamerican slant to most of my opinions but I beleive this guy is right.

reguardless of the time he did it, what he did is excatly the same as purposfully breaking into someone’s house to rifle through their belongings in the hope of finding something valueable to take.

just because the window’s left open it doesn’t give you the right to enter their house.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:33:01 +0000

Sorry to say this guys but..

He hacked into a government system.
Doesn’t matter which governments it was.
The same would happen to an American who hacks into a British Government system and gets caught.

He deserves what he gets.

Enough said.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:23:06 +0000

“One hack, involving the Earle Naval Weapons Station in New Jersey, happened immediately after September 11, 2001, says Associated Press.”
For a hacker, he’s not the brightest bulb in the tree. Anyone with common sense would realize that there would be repercussions for hacking military computers post 9/11. He’s looking at some hard time, check out another hacker who didn’t even access military computers.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/kevin-mitnick/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:30:49 +0000

“McKinnon’s supporters say he’s being made a scapegoat for US shortcomings”

His supporters are right. Someone “hacked” into the same computers 10 years prior using the exact same tactics. Google Mathew Bevan for details, or check out the BBC story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4761985.stm

What McKinnon did was careless and stupid. It was an unsophisticated crack that could only possibly have worked versus a very low security computer system. The fallacy of the breached systems is the fact that they had very weak passwords (i.e., “password”) or no password whatsoever.

McKinnnon will get a serious sentence because it’s easier for the US to make an example of him than to enforce passwords on its desktop computers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:20:48 +0000

Enough said.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:19:57 +0000

I guess governments betraying their citizens to foreign powers is the in thing among governments. I only hope that this guy has British and U.S. secrets that he can share with their enemies. That is what I would do if my government betrayed me to a foreign power. I would do anything I could to hurt the government that betrayed me.