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6-Month Sentence for NASA Cracker
lunartik noted an AP story running on a 6-month sentence given to
Gregory Aaron Herns for cracking into the computer system at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 'Herns told federal agents he was looking for computer space to store movies he'd downloaded. It took hours for technicians to find the problem, fix it and patch the system's security holes.'"
I'm surprised this wasn't posted under YRO.
Support the First Amendment. Read at -1
Now if he'd just uploaded LOTR:ROTK instead of Legally Blonde....
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
Let's just download some movies. Oh wait, I've run out of space.
LETS HACK NASA!
Step 1: Download movies.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: HACK NASA!
"It would be like clearing a sidewalk full of spectators with a fire hose so you can walk through it," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Nyhus.
More like breaking into a bank vault to store the bicycle you just stole.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
NASA should be allowed use these idiots in their experiments. I'm thinking 'Effects on subject A when parachutes fail to deploy on capsule dropped from 50,000 feet' or 'Impact determination of Subject A foolishly slashing open his space suit in LEO" sort of stuff.
NASA could get valuable data, some small furry woonland creatures would be saved this fate and the world would have a few idiots less. Win all round scenario.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
"It's not like firing up your Macintosh or your Apple where you push a button and wait six minutes for the thing to boot."
;)
He must be talking about Windows
I well remember the days of downloading pr0n off of illegitimate ftp servers setup, on you guessed it, NASA computers. This was back in the day when 3 GB was a fantastic amount of data. And why yes it was busty asian pr0n.
Yes it is his fault. Just like the guy who finds a way to disable home or car alarms, break in and steal stuff. Are you kidding me? You side with a criminal because the lock on some window wasn't good enough to stop a crowbar forced entry ? 6 monthes isn't enough, this caused far more damage than armed robbery and cost taxpayers more money than grand theft auto. I'd like to see what you think after someone commits a crime against you or a family member...we'll see you throw your "protect poor criminals because their cool" argument out the window. Hackers are losers who can't get chicks. Guys that protect us against hackers and clean up their mess, have chicks, thats why they need steady jobs. Moral of the story ? Get a girlfriend, loser.
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator"-Adolf Hitler or George W Bush?
Wow! If it took them several hours to fix, I would love to be the IT guy there!
Well now, you had a port open on your firewall, and "pswrd" as as the password for root, so, it took me 1/2 hour to fix, plus 3 1/2 to get through security, so at $50,000 an hour, that will be 200k! I take personal checks...
They didn't have any chairs to sit on in the server room while they fixed security holes, so they made a big pile of money and sat on that, and it worked almost as well. After the whole fiasco NASA is now researching a new more expensive type of money that is more easily convertable to a sitting appliance.