Comments on: NASA hacker case adjourned over extradition fears

U.K. judge won't extradite Gary McKinnon unless U.S. can guarantee that he won't be subject to its antiterrorism laws.

Windows problem

I thought this was funny:

"'I found out that the US military use Windows,' said Mr
McKinnon in that BBC interview. 'And having realised this, I
assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn't
secured it properly.' Using commercially available software, Mr
McKinnon probed dozens of US military and government
networks. He found many machines without adequate password
or firewall protection. So, he simply hacked into them," Boyd
reports."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4715612.stm

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Not a Windows problem

Any network that is not secured correctly, regardless of the OS, is easy pickings. I seem to remember it being so badly administered that nothing would have saved it.

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Strangeirony!

Strange even sony's dreaded hidden XCP rootkit installer, infected many thousands of government network computers, yet they continue to take no action!

Amazing double standards at work!