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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: 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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