Gary McKinnon aka Solo: the new Mitnick?
US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.
Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe.
US govt is attempting to extradite him to stand trial.
One American prosecutor called “the biggest military computer hack of all time”.
He got caught after 2 years because “it got so routine and blase that he got sloppy. A fellow hacker remarked that if he had done it for two weeks they would never have caught him.
Faces decades in jail and millions of dollars in fines.
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