NASA hacker jailed

NASA hacker jailed
John Leyden, The Register 2005-06-28

A US man was jailed for four months last week after he was convicted of hacking into US government computers and defacing web sites. Robert Lyttle, 21, of Pleasant Hill, near San Francisco, was also ordered to pay damages of approximately $72,000 and to serve three year probation after his release from federal prison. The first four months of this probation period will be under home confinement with electronic monitoring, US District Judge D. Lowell Jensen ordered.

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NASA hacker jailed 2005-06-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

If the duo really wanted to be patriotic, they should have informed the IS staff at those particular government agencies instead of hacking into the sites. They also should have given Lyttle a longer prison sentence....

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Re: NASA hacker jailed 2005-07-04
Anonymous (1 replies)

One time I was conducting research for my Grad. degree back in 1997 where I was looking a various State Department web sites for common configuration issues. I contacted the State Department IT staff about my findings and they treated me like an Id10T. Now when I found a security issue during my ...

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Re: Re: NASA hacker jailed 2005-07-06
Anonymous

Persistence is the key. If the IT staff at the government agency is ignoring you, keep informing them of flaws and exploits until they can no longer ignore you. As a side note, you mentioned doing your grad degree back in 1997. I am almost positive you would be better received by the government nowa...

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NASA hacker jailed 2005-07-02
Anonymous (1 replies)

for deface sites ? jail OMG, jail for nothing

fbi go for osamo not for lammers

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Re: NASA hacker jailed 2005-07-06
Anonymous

I wouldn't exactly call it "jail for nothing". You also have to factor in lost reputation due to the defacement, time taken to restore the site, etc.

By the way, the FBI is still looking for Osama. I guess they just consider these "hackers" low-hanging fruit....

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