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Given that he supposedly cracked secure computers, which I would hope was no simple matter, the US shouldn't be extraditing him to face prison. They should give
by marcuspovey 14y ago
Given that he supposedly cracked secure computers, which I would hope was no simple matter, the US shouldn't be extraditing him to face prison. They should give him a job.
- b6 14y agoIIRC, his main technique was to log in to Windows NT boxes with null Administrator passwords.
- andyn 14y agoHe claims a Perl script that found computers with default or blank passwords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_the_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...
- danielweber 14y agoNo they shouldn't. Apart from the normal reasons you don't hire thieves to guard your stuff[1], he is too mentally unstable to be trusted with anything. Remember, it was his mental instability that probably saved him from extradition. [1] Yeah, it makes for great Hollywood stuff, but that's Hollywood.