That's the subject of my new article at Mysterious Universe, which begins as follows:
Gary McKinnon is someone
that most people with a deep interest in UFOs will have heard of. As
I’m sure you will remember, he’s the guy who, in the early 2000s, chose
to do something that was (A) extremely reckless; and (B) absolutely
stupid. He did nothing less than hack into the systems of various
agencies of the U.S. government. The purpose for this crazy decision?
McKinnon felt that by doing so he just might be able to find some of
the government’s most classified data on UFOs and alien life. Well, it
didn’t quite work out like that. In fact, McKinnon found himself plunged
into the heart of what became an ever-growing nightmare. Author and
journalist Jon Ronson said
of McKinnon: “Basically, what Gary was looking for – and found time and
again – were network administrators within high levels of the U.S.
government and military establishments who hadn’t bothered to give
themselves passwords. That’s how he got in.”
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