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US Busts Military Network Hacker
yorgasor writes " KATU has an article announcing the case of a mysterious hacker who has broken into roughly 100 military networks has been solved. The hacker is a British citizen and authorities were considering extradition for the case. Although no networks containing classified information were compromised, they do consider the hacker to be a professional rather than recreational due to the large number of networks he hacked."
Um, dude, all terrorists carry "AKs." Was this guy carrying an "AK"? No. Give him a break, he was just a British dude who probably had code red or something.
It said, "this is just practice"
are you a moron?
It will be interesting to see if the US are actually able to extradite a Brit for having commited cyber crimes. Wouldn't the penalties be a fair bit harsher over the pond than in Europe?
It depends on the exact wording of the law. I can't remember if the EU forbids extradition if there is a risk of the death penalty, or to any country that supports the death penalty. If it's the latter, then he'll be safe from extradition.
The system is pretty strange tho'. For example, the British government offered no support to its citizens arrested in Turkey for photographing an air show, but it protects foreign terrorists from extradition because of aformentioned EU law.
In practice, I suspect that if the hacker is an "asylum seeker" Britain will protect him, and if he's an otherwise law-abiding tax-paying citizen, they'll serve him up on a plate.
wakeup and smell the bullshit folks.
"hacked" can mean he only looked at them. It does not mean he actually made it into them. Knowing the US Government as I do, he probably pinged them...
And consider, what does it mean to "break into a network?" I know how to break into a computer, but into a network? Perhaps he showed up unannounded at the officers ball...
"The officials declined Monday to say whether this person was already in custody, but one familiar with the investigation, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said investigators consider the break-ins the work of a professional rather than a recreational hacker." Yeah right! There is no such thing as military intelligence. Any script kiddie could have done this and "to see of I could," is the only reason he or she would need. Mafiaboy was a script kiddie. The military couldn't find their ass with a map to it.
How ya like dat?