Yesterday I wrote about Garry Mckinnon, and today I have to straight lift this from Slashdot.Org:

"The BBC has published a very good profile of Gary McKinnon. It discusses his motives and methods as well as raising the question as to whether he is a malicious 'hacker' or whether he was simply obsessed with finding info about UFOs and should be praised for finding security faults in what should be extremely secure systems. This should provided stimulus for some interesting discussion on Slashdot especially between us Brits and our American friends following the confirmation of his extradition to the USA."

It just so doesn't add up! He's either the biggest hacking mastermind of all time, or a naive but capable guy, who did whatever it took to get to sensitive information to prove\disprove the whole UFO conspiracy theories that are floating around out there.

 ... "But he did admit that he hacked into dozens of US government computer systems. In fact, he calmly detailed just how easy it was to access extremely sensitive information in those systems."

Cough! Easy to get access to military computers?!?! Oh dear! Me thinks the network admins that secured those environments should be brought to trial for allowing sensitive information to be easily accessible! Or does the buck stop with the hacker, and not the piss poor admins?

Just imagine setting up an MS product (ISA Server) so badly that people can just come in and tickle the internal network silly ... then, when your boss blows chunks you say it's the hackers fault for abusing the badly configured setup! You've got to laugh!

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2008/08/29/more-on-garry-mckinnon.aspx