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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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Re: NASA hacker jailed 2005-07-04
Anonymous
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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