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- Gary McKinnon wins short stay from extradition
- Gary McKinnon wins short stay from extraditionH@C|< tH3 P1@n3t!!The title says it all...H@C|< tH3 P1@n3t!!
- Tags: Gary McKinnon
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Gary McKinnon wins short stay from extradition
- Gary McKinnon, who may be a somewhat deranged alien hunter or "the world's most dangerous hacker," as U.S. authorities style him according to the Guardian won a temporary stay of his extradition to the U.S. Last month, the British House of Lords court denied his appeal...
- Tags: U.S., Stay, Gary McKinnon, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Gary McKinnon â€" 'world's most dangerous hacker' â€" to be extradited
- Gary McKinnon â€" 'world's most dangerous hacker' â€" to be extraditedPretty one sided article.It seems that you took what the defendant's lawyers had to say as gospel. There are two sides to the story. I would not expect the defendant's lawyers to do anything other then downplay what...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Gary McKinnon, dangerous hacker, hacker, U.S. Department of Defense
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Gary McKinnon â€" 'world's most dangerous hacker' â€" to be extradited
- The Guardian, out of the United Kingdom, is reporting that Gary McKinnon, the "world's most dangerous hacker", will be extradited to the United States to face criminal hacking charges. McKinnon, a 42 year old unemployed systems administrator from north London, allegedly hacked into systems belonging to the US army,...
- Tags: Hacker, Gary McKinnon, Hacking, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- British hacker loses U.S. extradition appeal
- British hacker loses U.S. extradition appealGary should NOT be extraditedHaving been in touch with Gary's mother Gary himself is prohibited from using email and Internet connected computers it seems that Ed Gibson during a secret conversation at the American Embassy told Gary's legal team of New Jersey's determination "to...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, British Hacker, Gary McKinnon, Gary
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?Our Gov.'s IT is full of idiots knowing NOTHINGabout IT. They got what they deserved. He should be given an award for showing how weak the US IT infrastructure really is.Our Gov. and the IT personnel should be prosecuted for negligence!!!!LOL!Unemployed? After he...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Gary McKinnon, security, McKinnon, Egypt
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
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- Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it
- I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extradition
- Gary McKinnon, the Briton who allegedly hacked into 97 NASA and Defense Department computers, has lost even more pleas to avoid extradition to the U.S., Wired reports. Despite McKinnon's arguments that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and could be at risk for psychosis, the judge ruled there was...
- Tags: U.S., U.S. Supreme Court, Britain, McKinnon, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Court hears NASA hacker 'at risk of psychosis'
- Court hears NASA hacker 'at risk of psychosis'He should of thought of that before hacking into the US computers.He may be innocent in his eyes and his actions may not warrant the US allegations, but he did admit to hacking the systems. Maybe they can just use him as...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, NASA, hacker, risk
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?So, in the future......"Live Free or Die Hard" could end up being a prophetic sort of documentary. That blows.There's only one solution. FIX IT!RE: The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?All this while Obama...
- Tags: obama, electrical grid, grid, critical asset, Hillary
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prison
- "NASA hacker" Gary McKinnon's recent diagnosis of Asperger syndrome â€" a kind of autism with a high incidence among computer programmers â€" may yet keep him out of American prisons. Several members of Parliament have signed onto a motion calling for McKinnon not to be extradited to the U.S. because...
- Tags: NASA, Diagnosis, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman, U.S., Computer, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK
- British hacker Gary McKinnon is almost out of options to avoid extradition to the US, but not quite. The BBC reports that McKinnon is asking the British Home Office to ensure he won't be jailed in the US once he's convicted. His lawyer wants him returned to the UK after...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Government, Hacker, Hacking, Home Secretary, Richard Koman, Security, Software, U.K., U.S., Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, NVidia Corp., Patch Management, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, 3G, E-books, Web Browsers, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web
- Hack-the-T presentation hits the WebMBTA made it publically available anyway...Look, the orginal paper didn't include the most sensative material anyway. But the MBTA did obtain that though a court order and then submitted it to the courts in a way that made it publically available. sheesh. It...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web, MBTA, Hack-the-T presentation, Hack-the-T, extradition, messenger
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- The British hacker who broke into thousands of Pentagon and U.S. government computers may soon be extradited to the U.S. Britain's top court, the British House of Lords, refused to block the extradition Wednesday, according to an AP report. U.S. officials say he broke into military networks,...
- Tags: Network, European Court, Hacker, Computer, Intrusion, McKinnon, McKinnnon, Productivity, Network Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...
- Hackers broke into Defense Department systems and caused an email outage that disrupted email service for 1,500 employees, reports Ars Technica."Elements of the OSD unclassified email system were taken offline yesterday afternoon, due to a detected penetration," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, according to a transcript of the event...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- British court denies extradition for UK hacker who broke into US military computers
- The British High Court rejected hacker Gary McKinnons bid to fight extradition for pulling off the "biggest military computer hack of all time," the BBC reports. Hes accused of breaking into 97 US military and NASA computers. McKinnon argued that in the US he would...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International, Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Researcher raided by FBI for blowing whistle on Airport security
- Researcher raided by FBI for blowing whistle on Airport securityGet your own facts straight![i]"It's Mathias not Mathius"[/i]Sorry - I didn't understand that such a trivial spelling mistake could change the entire meaning of the post.[i]"He was escorted by military planes on either side ready to shoot him down."[/i]No he wasn't....
- Tags: Federal government, FBI, security, airport security
- Discussion threads 2006-10-29
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