Have Dial-up? Will Hack US Military!

You girls always complain about your slow DSL or broadband connections, eh? Well, guess what? One of the world’s biggest hacks wasn’t done on a blazing T1. Rather, it was done on a measly 56kbps modem!

Gary McKinnon, a British sysad was accused of hacking into 97 US Military and NASA computers apparently in search of UFOs.

In one news report, his methods were; “Using a limited 56-kbps dialup modem and the hacking name “Solo” he found many U.S. security systems used an insecure Microsoft Windows program with no password protection. He then bought off-the-shelf software and scanned military networks, saying he found expert testimonies from senior figures reporting that technology obtained from extra-terrestrials did exist. At the time of his indictment, Paul McNulty, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said: “Mr. McKinnon is charged with the biggest military computer hack of all time.”

UFOs?

Well, maybe he did find something.

In his interview with the BBC he also claimed that “The Disclosure Project” says there is “extra-terrestrial in origin and [they've] captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it.” He also claimed to have downloaded a low-resolution image of “something not man-made” and “cigar shaped” floating above the northern hemisphere. He said that unfortunately he did not manage to get a screenshot or recording of the image because he was “bedazzled” to see the image, could not remember the capture function in the software”

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