The UFO hacker
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008The Scottish UFO enthusiast accused of hacking 97 US Military computers at the Pentagon and NASA between 2001 and 2002 in the hunt for evidence of UFOs, has won a two-week stay on his extradition to the US. McKinnon never denied wandering around networks of a wide number of military institutions, but has always claimed he never did any harm. The Americans on the other hand claims he stole over 950 passwords when he accessed 53 US Army computers, 26 US Navy computers, 16 NASA computers and one US Defense Department computer.
If convicted he’s facing up to 70 years in prison and a fine of £1.7 million for sabotaging vital defense systems. He could also be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect….







