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6-Month Sentence for NASA Cracker

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the be-careful-who-you-crack dept.

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.'"

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  1. With the direction Slashdot has been going lately, by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised this wasn't posted under YRO.

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  2. Great idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:Great idea by TFGeditor · · Score: 3, Funny

      But where's the Profit? There's gotta be Profit. You can't have a 3-step program without Profit. Profit makes the world go 'round. We like Profit...oh, wait...

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    2. Re:Great idea by knipknap · · Score: 5, Funny

      Who has more expierience solving space problems than the NASA?

  3. Mmm. No. by Ligur · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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    1. Re:Mmm. No. by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

      yeah, yours is better and funnier. He should step down immediately !

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  4. Put these morons to use by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  5. Huh? by Pheonix5000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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 ;)

  6. Re:Yeah - let's give the CS student a computer ban by Jozer99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.