AndyMC17 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Blame the programmers (Score 1) 107

by AndyMC17 on Saturday January 24, 2009 @12:33PM (#26589441) Attached to: UK Judge Grants Extradition Review To Cracker Gary McKinnon

I have a feeling that the true server in question IS secure. Default passwords? Smells like honey to me.

I agree, it seems a little too convenient that he got in using the default passwords. They probably kept that system running as bait specifically to get people to try to break in.

UK Judge Grants Extradition Review To Cracker Gary McKinnon 107

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 24, 2009 @01:11AM from the speedy-legal-system dept.

JobsEnding writes with this quote from IBTimes: "A British court ruled on Friday that a man who hacked into US military computers will be given permission for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States. Hacker Gary McKinnon, 42, who had been diagnosed recently with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, has admitted hacking into the military computers. His lawyers had said McKinnon was at risk of suicide if he were extradited." We discussed the granting of McKinnon's extradition in 2006 when it was first granted, as well as a profile of the man more recently.

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