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McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extradition

McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extraditionPeople in the UK see the charges as untrue.There may be more important things than the welfare of one man, but people react to unfairness. It is felt that McKinnon has been victimised and that the accusations of 'damage' are totally unjustified when he...

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Discussion threads 2009-08-01

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

Green Dam Watch: Software dates from '06, Sony is shipping, vendors will uninstall.

Item: Green Dam Youth Escort - the Chinese net nanny software that must be installed on PCs sold in China starting Wednesday - is largely stolen from a 2006 version of Solid Oak's CyberSitter software. For proof, see this post. Item: Rebecca MacKinnon...

Tags: Software, Sony Corp., McKinnon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-29

McKinnon will plead guilty to stay in UK

McKinnon will plead guilty to stay in UKWould that really block extradition?Don't know anything about the extradition treaty between the US and the UK, but could not the US renew the extradition request once McKinnon was released?Of course, I would hope that he wasn't so desperate to avoid extradition that...

Tags: Insurance, McKinnon, extradition

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

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 ...

Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...ARe they going to blame this one on McKinnon too?It seems like anybody can just wander in to the Pentagon's computers. McKinnon says that many of the servers were not even password protected.Obsolete data processing systemNo wonder almost anyone can...

Tags: Hacking, Pentagon, McKinnon, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-06-25

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

British ID thieves face jail time

British ID thieves face jail timeAhhh, so that means......if you forget to lock your front door on your way to work one day, you should be convicted of negligence if someone steals your TV while you're away?In a perfect world, we shouldn't need security of any kind. Since this...

Tags: identity theft, McKinnon, security

Discussion threads 2006-07-25

British hacker close to extradition to US

Is Gary McKinnon the greatest military hacker of all time, or just your average geek conspiracy theorist, busting into Defense Dept. computers looking for proof of aliens? Those questions may be addressed in American courts as a British court recommended McKinnon be extradited to the US for trial, Reuters reports....

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Blog posts 2006-05-10

Alleged NASA hacker loses extradition ruling

Alleged NASA hacker loses extradition rulinghe forgot about public stocks and a floggingWhat was he thinking and what did he expect?Welcome to the colonies!We have not forgotten King George III and the tyrannies of old. Your parliament still sends us a bill for the Tea Party every year, which...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, McKinnon, hacker, NASA

Discussion threads 2006-05-10

Congress takes on search companies over China

Rebecca McKinnon is blogging live from the House hearings on Internet censorship in China. And there are others, including RedState, Tim Chapman, the right-wing Human Events Online, and even the Times. The story so far from McKinnon: Tom Lantos: “your abhorrent activities in China are a...

Tags: U.S. Government, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-15

Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?

Over the course of a year, starting shortly after 9/11, British hacker Gary McKinnon, using the handle Solo, hacked into 96 Defense Dept. computers, effectively shut down the naval weapons center responsible for the Atlantic Fleet, and hacked into some 73,000 government computers. These are the charges the US government...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2005-08-03

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

Best Security Story of the Week

Jo Best over at Silicon.com gets my vote for writing the most entertaining security story of the week.Two hilarious things about this story on Gary McKinnon, the UK's infamous NASA hacker who spent a lot of time roaming around NASA's network. First, his allogations that NASA has a bunch of...

Tags: hacker, NASA, McKinnon

Blog posts 2005-07-12

Additional Resources

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

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

China demands new PCs carry spyware

There comes a time when despite the allure of the market, Western industry should band together and turn its back on China. A time when the computer and Internet industry realizes that the censorship-and-repression tax the government is intent on levying is too high a price...

Tags: Software, China, PC, Spyware, Computer, Tools & Techniques, Government, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-08

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

News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction? Jason O'Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy? Apple quietly releases iLife '09 hardware up-to-date program ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Software-as-a-service, PC, Palm Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Sales, INQ Mobile, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

McKinnon will plead guilty to stay in UK

British 'hacker' admits to breaking U.K. laws, will serve time in Britain to avoid U.S. extradition. by Richard Koman

Tags: U.S., U.K., Computer, CPS, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-12