geeks

[jf noonan]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Peter K. forwarded:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/23/technology/23HACK.html
> 
> New York Times/National
> September 23, 2000
> 
> Youth Sentenced in Government Hacking Case
> By DAVID STOUT
> 
>
> The authorities disagreed. They said the teenager invaded 13
> computers of the National Aeronautics and Space
> Administration at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center
> in Huntsville, Ala., on June 29 and 30, 1999. Among other
> things, he downloaded software and stole data, leading to a
> three-week shutdown of some computers.
> 

Three week shutdown ofr what?  It doesn't say he destroyed data,
so why this 'shutdown'.


> Brian Dunbar, a space agency spokesman, said today that the
> affected computers "were not related to command and control
> in any way," so there was no chance of, say, rockets being
> launched or satellites being thrown out of orbit. But the
> Justice Department said NASA incurred more than $40,000 in
> labor and replacement costs.

So a (puported) $40k is worth 10 years in Club Fed?  Gee, what
was it Millkin got?  What do most corporate theives (that take
$M's) get?

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
jfn1 at msc.com