US Army Computer Crime Investigation Unit
Government Computer News has an article on the US Army’s Computer Crime Investigative Unit:
“CCIU agents respond to and investigate network intrusions and other computer-related felonies across the globe,” Andrews said. “Given the so-called borderless nature of Internet-based crime, many of CCIU’s cases involve investigative leads in foreign countries, adding even more complexity to cases that can often involve hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages."One such case occurred three years ago.
Gary McKinnon, a computer administrator from London, faces extradition for charges that he hacked into military and NASA computer systems, deleting files and blocking access to the Internet, officials said. The incident occurred over a 12-month period during 2001 and 2002. CCIU gathered evidence and led the international investigation that resulted in McKinnon’s arrest.Special agent Brent A. Pack, operations officer of the Fort Belvoir, Va.-based unit, said nabbing the hacker involved “collecting, examining and reporting more than 1T of electronic evidence.”
McKinnon was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in 2002 on eight counts of computer crimes and is scheduled for an extradition hearing on July 27 in London."
Comments
I'm rather inclined to take the philosophical view that if anyone was able to wander in and out of what should be a highly secured system for one year,I'm relieved that it was a UFO enthusiast from GB.The alternatives are too fearful to contemplate.
Get over the red faces,and remunerate the lad for exposing shamefully weak security practices.It serves no purpose to imprison him.Learn from him.
Lock down your systems before the world's worst nightmare becomes a reality.
Posted by: openminded | July 14, 2005 12:10 AM
It's in the US interest that his stories of incredibly advanced weapons and anti-gravity technology are spread around. Reality is that the US can't beat a stone-age guerilla movement. Reality is that they have to resort to attacking civilians to gain advantage against the enemy. Reality is that the US uses torture against the enemy. That doesn't sound like a military with anti-gravity technology to me.
Posted by: Kharms | July 14, 2005 9:29 AM
It's in the US interest that his stories of incredibly advanced weapons and anti-gravity technology are spread around. Reality is that the US can't beat a stone-age guerilla movement. Reality is that they have to resort to attacking civilians to gain advantage against the enemy. Reality is that the US uses torture against the enemy. That doesn't sound like a military with anti-gravity technology to me.
Posted by: Kharms | July 14, 2005 9:29 AM
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Posted by: Mute777 | July 21, 2005 3:18 AM