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Ok everybody we have this week's Geek Chic Hero of the Week.
To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time". But British Gary McKinnon broke into the systems at NASA, the Pentagon, Johnson Space Centre as well as systems used by the U.S. army, navy and air force for a very good reason. He wanted to look for evidence of UFOs and Aliens. Even better than that he claims he found evidence that they do.
It's not all fun and game for the lad, he is being charged with terrorism and may be sent to Guantanimo Bay according to his defence lawyers. Now although he is being charged as a terrorist this is more a case of embarassing the US government and defences forces, Kinnock explained that
"many U.S. top-security systems were using an insecure Microsoft Windows programme and had no password protection at all." He argues he is being made a scapegoat by U.S. authorities to deter other would-be hackers rather than address their own security flaws. His supporters include some MPs who back his fight to change the UK-U.S. extradition treaty
Personally i hope he manages to sell his story for really expensive movie rights and gets a nice well paid job as an IT security after all this.
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