Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon must’ve been
a curious, restless child, for to gain information on UFOs, he thought it better
to get a direct access into the channels of NASA. He infiltrated 97 US military
and NASA computers, by installing virus and deleting a few files. All the
efforts to satisfy his curiosity, but, alas, curiosity killed the cat. It was
soon found that McKinnon was guilty of having hacked the military and NASA
websites from his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in London. While entering and
deleting the files from these websites wasn’t enough, McKinnon thought of
shaming the security forces by putting out a notice on the website that said,
“Your security is crap.” Well, looks like McKinnon was something, if he could
shut down the US Military’s Washington Network of about 2000 computers for 24
hours, making the hack, the biggest military computer hack of all
time!
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