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Story: Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal

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Sounds like they want to recruit him or....

they want to interrogate the crap out of him to find out what or how he did some of his hacking. My guess is that they don't really have a clue how many systems he got into. The 73,000 number could only have been a botnet type of infection. Maybe he dumped a rootkit on a bunch of boxes inside their firewalls. The 97 or 73 or whatever were systems they could tell for sure he'd been into.

No matter what he did. He screwed up big time and he picked the absolute wrong political climate to do it in.

It also could be that they think he's part of a larger group of hackers and they want to find out who he's been pals with. I'll bet you a nickel his girlfriend is a hacker or a wannabe as well. That would explain what they had in common.

Doing grass and alcohol sounds more like he suffers from depression than Aspergers but its consistent with Aspergers as well.

Wonder if he's been messing around with some jihad sites? Is Babblefish good enough to read Persian or Arabic and translate it into English? If he ends up coming here, he might get to dry out and de-tox at a "Caribbean island resort" with a long-term lease!

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