Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life

Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-11-13

Usenet posts show Gary McKinnon was a bit of a phone phreak, knew where to buy lock picks, and had an early interest in defense computers. A former employer says he was bored at work.

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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life 2002-11-15
Anonymous (3 replies)

Take anything you hear about this Gary McKinnon person with a large chunk of salt.

The media has stated that his online psuedonym is "solo" -while the real "solo" from the .uk is still at large!

Scanning thousands of IP's for insecure 'RemotelyAnywhere' windows servers is hardly one of the mos...

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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life 2002-11-16
Anonymous

He wasn't scanning for RA installations, he was installing RA on machines he had already compromised using other methods....

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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life 2002-11-18
Anonymous

As usual, somebody gets caught and people immediately start pouring scorn on him and his abilities :/...

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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life 2002-11-18
Anonymous

Mmm, the whole story smacks of excessive hype and media misrepresentation. I sometimes wonder how far governments will go to ensure 'victories' in their 'war on hackers'. ...

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Huh... 2002-11-19
Anonymous

Calling RemotelyAnywhere "insecure" is something I wouldn't do. RemotelyAnywhere is by far the most secure of its kind. It has several levels of protection that can be enabled or disabled by knowledgeable users. In its most open configuration it's about as secure as similar products at their best.

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Accused Pentagon Hacker's Online Life 2002-11-19
Anonymous

You would think that the Government and DOD would be more interested in plugging the holes/patching the vulnerabilities but then again, why not go after the person who exploited them since the admins are incapable of performing anything remotely connected to security....

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