Re 17 yr old breaks into Pentagon

[Guilherme C Roschke]

> The exploits of Markus Hirsch, 17, come only days
> after British surveillance enthusiast John Locker was
> able to hack into US spy satellite pictures.

	he didn't hack into it.  he just pointed his satellite dish in the
right direction.  the satellite intel feeds are unencrypted.  apparently,
all the encrypted satellite bandwidth the US owns is being used up in
afghanistan.  some technical (but not too technical) explanations here:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/028213&mode=thread&tid=172

-gr