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NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed

An anonymous reader writes "A BBC article reports about an interview between Click and Gary McKinnon who in 2002 hacked into NASA and other US Military networks. In the interview he talks about how he accessed machines by using default passwords and a conversation with a NASA network engineer using Wordpad. He also talks about how he found information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images."

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  1. UFOs, free energy, and anti-gravity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is he certain he didn't stumble on a NASA honeypot?

    1. Re:UFOs, free energy, and anti-gravity? by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think you mean NASA chamberpot.

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    2. Re:UFOs, free energy, and anti-gravity? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

      They're (ever so) slightly more up-to-date on the Space Shuttle than that.

      There was a problem earlier, though, when a metric chamberpot was installed in error...

  2. I'm not saying he's deluded but ... by ctid · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... I can't think of any way to end this sentence. Here's a choice quote:

    I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.



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    1. Re:I'm not saying he's deluded but ... by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't think of any way to end this sentence.

      I can - 5 years, 3 with good behaviour.

  3. This guys best defense? by wfberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    This guys best defense would be to issue a full and frank admission of guilt.

    Who would believe him?

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  4. There's evil afoot ... by hotspotbloc · · Score: 2, Funny
    He also talks about how he found information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images."

    He forgot about UPC labels and the ZIP+4 system (which is really a secret relocation program). Just pray they never use it. =)

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  5. Re:UFO Vs Alien & Gary's Flakey Story by maggard · · Score: 2, Funny
    .. you can mess with the color quality and resolution of an image to make it look like my family picture is really some image a green gelatinous blob that eats people.
    Clearly you've never been part of a large family reunion...

    A green gelatinous blob that eats people would be preferable to some of my more distant relatives. Indeed, I think we had one attend once, at least it didn't offer to show me it's new tatoo in a place I'd just as soon skip seeing on any relative!

    Hmm, now I'm tempted to Photoshop some of the reunion group shots, see if I cut the resolution and color palette down I'll find anything I can sell to the tabloids. Blur large Aunt Marge in her "party dress & party teeth" and it'll rival Hollywood's best SFX!

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  6. Re:Can't get to story. by xiando · · Score: 4, Funny

    AND...if there really was flying saucers from Krypton out there, who's keeping the Europeans, Chinese, Russians, etc... from publishing those photos...

    The Bildeberg Group. You will hear of them soon enough. The media has time and time again told you the official government conspiracy story which claims that a guy in a cave somewhere was behind 9/11. As you will find by clicking the link in my sig, the evidence clearly shows it was an inside job. Millions of people worldwide have realized this and if you Google you'll find more websites about this issue than you could possible read in your lifetime.

    But now, reciently, Alex Jones and Sharlie Cheen were allowed to inform that 9/11 was an inside job on CNN (who originally came with the "government story" and are complicit).

    You WILL be infomed about the Bilderberg Group soon. And perhaps the truth about UFO's. You see, "The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, the Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberg Group have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." (Dr. Johannes Koeppl, former official of the German Ministry for Defense and adviser to NATO, 2001)

  7. Re:Honestly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Someone should fix you up with Barbara Schwarz. She believes in underwater villages in the Great Salt Lake where no one grows old. She also believes in a massive conspiracies to hide the truth. I think it could work.

  8. Re:I'm really skeptical by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it would be hard for it to seem less credible, wouldn't it? What happens when you reduce the video to 4 bit colour?

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  9. Re:UFO Conspiracy Theories Debunked by Geopolitics by Valdrax · · Score: 2, Funny

    In all fairness we steamrolled Iraq and have suffered exceedingly low casualties. A low level, extremely unsuccessful, resistance is no indication that we're not using extremely advanced technology.

    True, but "Shock and Awe" would've been even more awesome with fighter jets that could make 90 degree turns and any sorts of weapons based on free energy technology.

    Though, I think if we had 100 year+ tech, we would have solved the IED sooner.

    Same here. At the very least, you'd think we'd have done some about the insurgency with those fancy government mind control lasers I keep hearing about.

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  10. Re:I'm really skeptical by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure if they have the equivalent under UK law, but maybe he is laying the groundwork for his not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity plea.

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  11. Re:Honestly... by linvir · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're confusing the US government with the Secret Government. The US government is a big, boring, beaurocratic political entity. The Secret Government is a covert operation of crazy selfish people who maintain a secret hidden cache of awesome magic toys that nobody is allowed to play with, not even old people or ninjas.

  12. Re:UFO Conspiracy Theories Debunked by Geopolitics by wkitchen · · Score: 4, Funny
    Bonus points if you can explain why 100 years advanced military technology isn't being used in Iraq right now.
    It is. They're using 300 years advanced Romulan technology to hide it. You can trust me on this because I got it straight from Elvis. He's in a great position to investigate these things because no one suspects him since they all think he's dead.
  13. Re:they're not so much for drumming by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure that I believe that females of any part of the animal kingdom think that drummers make superior mates.

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  14. Didn't you guys see hackers?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're only ereet if you connect to NASA with a payphone!

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