, 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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He was not scanning for RA installations, mind you. The Navy were - and there was an article about this somewhere about six months ago - to find out which computers might have been compromised. He gained administrative access (which you NEED, in order to install software like RA) in some other way.
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