Another
aspect of reality that inspired my group to pursue the idea of an autistic boy
hacking into the FBI mainframe is Gary McKinnon.
Gary
McKinnon systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of
perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time".
McKinnon has a case of Aspergers Syndrome and claims that he was looking for
evidence of free energy suppression and a cover up of UFO activity and other
technologies potentially useful to the public. He was faced extradition to the
USA but this has recently been withdrawn by the Home Secretary Theresa May.
McKinnon
is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a
13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, at his girlfriend's
aunt's house in London, using the name 'Solo'.
The
US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which
shut down the US Army’s Military District of Washington network of 2,000
computers for 24 hours. McKinnon also posted a notice on the military's
website: "Your security is crap". After the September 11 attacks in
2001, he deleted weapons logs at the Earle Naval Weapons Station, rendering its
network of 300 computers inoperable and paralyzing munitions supply deliveries
for the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. McKinnon is also accused of copying data,
account files and passwords onto his own computer. US authorities claim the
cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was over $700,000.
While
not admitting that it constituted evidence of destruction, McKinnon did admit
leaving a threat on one computer:
"US
foreign policy is akin to Government-sponsored terrorism these days … It was
not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last
year … I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels … "
US
authorities claim that McKinnon is trying to downplay his own actions. A senior
military officer at the Pentagon told The Sunday Telegraph: "US policy is
to fight these attacks as strongly as possible. As a result of Mr McKinnon's
actions, we suffered serious damage. This was not some harmless incident. He
did very serious and deliberate damage to military and Nasa computers and left
silly and anti-America messages. All the evidence was that someone was staging a
very serious attack on US computer systems."
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