Another NASA Hacker Indicted

eldavojohn writes "Earlier this year, UK citizen & hacker of NASA Gary KcKinnon was extradited to the United States (also interviewed twice). Now, another hacker has been indicted for hacking more than 150 U.S. government computers. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania claims to have led a 'white hat team' to expose flaws in U.S. government computers. It seems everyone else has been busy hacking into government systems while I've been wasting my time playing Warcraft." From the article: "The breached computers were used to collect and process data from spacecraft. Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in $1.36 million in losses for NASA and nearly $100,000 in losses for the Energy Department and the Navy, prosecutors said. Several suspected NASA hackers have been dealing with law enforcement recently."

Comments

Re:Not very bright and certainl not "white hat"

[Anonymous Coward]

> It was fully of typos, bad commands, and just other terribly embarassing things.

Sounds like he has a bright future right here, on slashdot.

Re:Prove it

[loraksus]

What are you talking about? NASA had to hire hundreds of people to write the communications out by hand in binary and send over 200,000 pigeons to deliver it to the spacecraft (where they had significant issues with packet loss).
Those numbers are extremely conservative!

Re:Teh Interwebs

[The Zon]

It's NASA 2.0. They're looking for input from the community.