UFO hacker Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to the US by Great Britain, according to a decision handed down by British Home Secretary John Reid. Mr. McKinnon is accused of hacking into NASA and US military computers in search of UFO evidence. According to what he told Dreamland listeners, he did not hack into anything, but simply entered computers on insecure networks that had no firewalls and were not password protected. Mr. McKinnon faces a virtual certainty of a long prison sentence in the US, and almost no chance of receiving a fair trial.
I'm inclined to accept McKinnon's claim that he didn't "hack," but accessed insecure networks. As I briefly relate in the introduction to "After the Martian Apocalypse," I phoned a scientist working at JPL in 1998 after finding his number in what was ostensibly an "internal" directory. I don't remember his name, but he was friendly enough and curious how I got his number.
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