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Story: Nasa hacker's appeal begins
What did he see....
that could warrant such a severe set of charges? Surely, viewing data on US government computers that were not even password protected could not do serious damage.
According to an interview with McKinnon, he stumbled upon an excel document entitled, "Extra-terrestrial Officers" and listed names and ranks of military personnel. It seems he has uncovered evidence of an above top secret program of a military presence in space. A Lunar Base perhaps? There must be more US activity besides the publicised NASA missions to have an extra-terrestrial officer corps.
It seems the US government is making an example of him to discourage other embarrassing disclosures by hacking into their data bases. It surely would be advisable to at least password protect this data, if it is that secret.
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