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US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed
bossanovalithium writes "Gary McKinnon, whose tribulations we have followed for several years now, is the UK hacker trying to escape extradition to the US. It appears he is expected to foot the bill for the US Government patching holes his breaching uncovered — to the tune of $700,000. It's not really the norm for someone to pay for exploits to be patched — damages fixed, yes, but this is a very different thing." The article paraphrases Eugene Spafford as saying that the victim of a cybercrime should not take the blame. "If someone broke a door to rob a store, he said, it was usual to charge them the cost of the door." Isn't the McKinnon case more like charging him to buy the lock that had been missing when he walked in?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Fixed! At least the holes aren't there anymore.
Gary did scan another country (other than his own).
I'm sorry, you must state your question in the form of an Automotive analogy...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
He should pay to re-train the entire government technical staff.
Nullius in verba
You'll be hearing from our lawyers soon. The crashes involving our automobiles were entirely due to operator error. There is nothing wrong with our braking system!!
Danny Ubanti
President and CEO
Ubanti Motor Company Inc Ltd
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
If I find a hole in my Government's IT security, I'll keep my mouth shut and let the government hear about it from the Chinese or the Iranians or the S. Koreans or ...anyone but me because they'll send me to jail and make me pay.
He wasn't reporting holes he was poking around NASA files trying to find proof about UFOs and Aliens. He's become a poster child to the UFO loonies. He claims to have seen proof on NASA computers but of coarse wasn't able to save any of it. I tried to point out to some of them that if he was a hacker didn't he know about the "PrtScn". key? Look at it this way if you sneak into a government facility into areas with information marked "Secret" haven't you broken some laws? This was a foreign national doing it. Since England won't extradite him they are basically going after him anyway they can. The excuse may be silly but there is a reason behind it.
2 countries 1 cup.
If the Ubanti Motor Company* sells a car with defective brakes
*Fake name to keep fanboys from mismodding
That's dangerously close to Ubuntu, friend. Maybe you should leave.