Comments on: UK hacker McKinnon on US list

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:37:46 +0000

This guy should be sending the U.S. administration a hefty invoice for pointing out this ridiculous situation. George Ws mob never ceases to amaze me. They are obviously a bunch of total, unprincipled twats. Yeah all right, I had figured that one out ages ago.

Ho Chi Mihn

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:52:57 +0000

I always new it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:01:58 +0000

I’ll drink to that ……..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:47:17 +0000

[on his hacking adventures]
“The US Space Command,” he says.

“What was the most exciting thing you saw?”

“I found a list of officers’ names,” he says, “under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’. 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.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:25:15 +0000

So the American armed forces don’t run any sort of Anti-Virus or Firewall on their networks? Do they not have a schedule for patching/updating system files? Did they, infact, leave some machines on their network with file and printer sharing still enabled? Apparently this guy did not actually ‘hack’ anything. Didn’t even need to crack a password at any stage, he used freely available tools, namely a port scanner and whatever his remote access tool was, could even have been pcanywhere!

They say he accessed a total of 97 computers over the course of 13 months! How lax was/is the network security within the american armed forces? Apparently his actions were “intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation and coercion”. Hah, where does it tell us about how he tried to blackmail them or sell sensitive information to China? It doesn’t…, he didn’t… He deleted a few log files to try and cover his tracks.

IMHO the american gvmnt are completely embarrassed by this whole thing and want to make an example of this poor sap who was just dumb enough to get caught. I mean it hardly sounds like he’s some sort of master hacker, maybe he’s played Uplink a few times and thought he knew the drill?! I don’t mean to insult Mr McKinnon by saying this. I just think that if it was so easy for him to get access then imagine how many people with more technical knowledge were able to get in and cover their tracks more efficiently.

To me this is just another example of the classic american bully tactic in action. No offence to all you regular joe yank’s out there but your administration are a bunch of wankers. So full of their own shit that they actually believe that they can do what they want and the rest of the world will stand back and allow it to happen. At least Tony Blair knows he’s in charge of a runt country and tries to make some friends in global politics. Gee Dubya seems to think that his way is the only way, that might is right and that he can damn well do what he pleases. Well fuck you bush, and the camel you rode in on.