Bush, under the guise of anti-terrorism, tells us we need to slacken up on the civil liberties. It's important to know who we call and what books we check out. Why so interested in reading about Islam? Could that call to Pakistan be to the Taliban? Meanwhile, an unemployed guy in the UK is hacking into the government's computers.LONDON (Reuters) - To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
But Briton Gary McKinnon says he is just an ordinary computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens and UFOs exist.
During his two-year quest, McKinnon broke into computers at the Pentagon, NASA and the Johnson Space Center as well as systems used by the U.S. army, navy and air force. [Emphasis mine. More here.]
2 comments:
Is that, or is that not, Mr. Kevin Bacon?
He looks like Bacon. I hate these guys. They make my job less fun. Instead of programming useful things that make peoples jobs easier, I spend almost all my time programming security features into systems. The entire IT industry is doing the same thing. If there weren't a need for security, most of us would be doing something very different.
Think about all the money society pours into keeping the bad guys from taking stuff that is not theirs. Every product and service has safeguards built into it to keep the ne'r do wells away.
I say let them have it.
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