Falha de segurança?

[Britan]

A noticia esta em Ingles mas vale a pena tem sido noticiado nos media:


Hacker fears 'UFO cover-up'

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Gary McKinnon

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In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks.

He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology.

America now wants to put him on trial, and if tried there he could face 60 years behind bars.

Banned from using the internet, Gary spoke to Click presenter Spencer Kelly to tell his side of the story, ahead of his extradition hearing on Wednesday, 10 May. You can read what he had to say here.

Spencer Kelly: Here's your list of charges: you hacked into the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Department of Defense, and Nasa, amongst other things. Why?

Gary McKinnon: I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology. I think it's the biggest kept secret in the world because of its comic value, but it's a very important thing.

Old-age pensioners can't pay their fuel bills, countries are invaded to award oil contracts to the West, and meanwhile secretive parts of the secret government are sitting on suppressed technology for free energy.

SK: How did you go about trying to find the stuff you were looking for in Nasa, in the Department of Defense?

GM: Unlike the press would have you believe, it wasn't very clever. I searched for blank passwords, I wrote a tiny Perl script that tied together other people's programs that search for blank passwords, so you could scan 65,000 machines in just over eight minutes.

SK: So you're saying that you found computers which had a high-ranking status, administrator status, which hadn't had their passwords set - they were still set to default?

GM: Yes, precisely.

SK: Were you the only hacker to make it past the slightly lower-than-expected lines of defence?

GM: Yes, exactly, there were no lines of defence. There was a permanent tenancy of foreign hackers. You could run a command when you were on the machine that showed connections from all over the world, check the IP address to see if it was another military base or whatever, and it wasn't.

The General Accounting Office in America has again published another damning report saying that federal security is very, very poor.

SK: Over what kind of period were you hacking into these computers? Was it a one-time only, or for the course of a week?

UFO?
A bird or a plane?... Gary was not able to get a picture of what he saw
GM: Oh no, it was a couple of years.

SK: And you went unnoticed for a couple of years?

GM: Oh yes. I used to be careful about the hours.

SK: So you would log on in the middle of the night, say?

GM: Yes, I'd always be juggling different time zones. Doing it at night time there's hopefully not many people around. But there was one occasion when a network engineer saw me and actually questioned me and we actually talked to each other via WordPad, which was very, very strange.

SK: So what did he say? And what did you say?

GM: He said "What are you doing?" which was a bit shocking. I told him I was from Military Computer Security, which he fully believed.

SK: Did you find what you were looking for?

GM: Yes.

SK: Tell us about it.

GM: There was a group called the Disclosure Project. They published a book which had 400 expert witnesses ranging from civilian air traffic controllers, through military radar operators, right up to the chaps who were responsible for whether or not to launch nuclear missiles.

They are some very credible, relied upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there's anti-gravity, there's free energy, and it's extra-terrestrial in origin, and we've captured spacecraft and reverse-engineered it.

SK: What did you find inside Nasa?

GM: One of these people was a Nasa photographic expert, and she said that in building eight of Johnson Space Centre they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. What she said was there was there: there were folders called "filtered" and "unfiltered", "processed" and "raw", something like that.

I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.

But what came on to the screen was amazing. It was a culmination of all my efforts. It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made.

It was above the Earth's hemisphere. It kind of looked like a satellite. It was cigar-shaped and had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, the right and both ends of it, and although it was a low-resolution picture it was very close up.

This thing was hanging in space, the earth's hemisphere visible below it, and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.

SK: Is it possible this is an artist's impression?

GM: I don't know... For me, it was more than a coincidence. This woman has said: "This is what happens, in this building, in this space centre". I went into that building, that space centre, and saw exactly that.

SK: Do you have a copy of this? It came down to your machine.

GM: No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application, so there's nothing to save on your hard drive, or at least if it is, only one frame at a time.

SK: So did you get the one frame?

GM: No.

SK: What happened?

GM: Once I was cut off, my picture just disappeared.

SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture?

GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across.

SK: You acknowledge that what you did was against the law, it was wrong, don't you?

GM: Unauthorised access is against the law and it is wrong.

SK: What do you think is a suitable punishment for someone who did what you did?

GM: Firstly, because of what I was looking for, I think I was morally correct. Even though I regret it now, I think the free energy technology should be publicly available.

I want to be tried in my own country, under the Computer Misuse Act, and I want evidence brought forward, or at least want the Americans to have to provide evidence in order to extradite me, because I know there is no evidence of damage.

Nasa told Click that it does not discuss computer security issues or legal matters. It denied it would ever manipulate images in order to deceive and said it had a policy of open and full disclosure, adding it had no direct evidence of extra-terrestrial life.

[Euzébio]

É difícil crer que uma organização governamental como a NASA não possua segurança alguma em seus computadores. Será que eles se consideram invioláveis?

[Britan]

quem sabe a verdade é que o fulano foi mesmo preso

[eDDy]

É difícil crer que uma organização governamental como a NASA não possua segurança alguma em seus computadores.

Pode acreditar nisso... segurança na Net e ilusao de muitos... a nao ser q usem linux

[Alexandre]

Não sei não.
Acho que tudo isso daria um ótimo episódio para os "Arquivos X".

[Britan]

Não me levem a mal mas as vezes da-me vontade de rir, 2 casos relacionados com ovnilogia, ambas as noticias divulgadas pela BBC, numa uma investigação séria é conduzida e voces dizem : é mentira, encobertamento, estão a esconder, na outra noticia também da mesma fonte,um sujeito é preso porque invade computadores de estado e da nasa ( se nao fosse verdade nao era preso) porque andava atrás de infos sobre ovni, ele já era conhecido no meio ovnilogico, diz que viu provas e voces dizem : ahhh ta a mentir parece o x files....

va-se la entender

[Euzébio]

Bom tópico, Brit, notícia bombástica. Mas...

O que aborrece é o fato de fulano ou sicrano nunca - eu disse nunca - obter uma prova concreta do que afirmam. "Mas você conseguiu gravar ao menos uma imagem?" "Ah, não, eram frames e os frames são muito lentos, etc."...

E só pelo fato de o sujeito ser um hacker, portanto desonesto, já perde aí 50% de credibilidade. Eu não confio em gente desonesta.

Não quero dizer com isso que estou inocentando os norte-americanos, acho mesmo que eles escondem muita coisa por lá. Mas se a verdade tiver que vir à tona, que venha por meios honestos e honrosos. Prisão é pouco para quem invade a privacidade alheia...

[Petrovski]

Concordo com você Euzébio, mas tenho de complementar: vendo desse ponto de vista, o governo não estaria sendo "honesto" com seu povo, fazendo o acobertamento de tantas coisas, então talvez, pensando assim, o hacker tenha razão em querer a verdade.

[Britan]

Supondeo que isto aconteceu a uns anos atras, com uma ligaçao 56k ele realmente poderia ter entrado nos pcs que falou e nao ter conseguido tirar coisa alguma, alias ele diz que tirou uma foto, a 56k tirar uma imagem de alta resoluºao é quase impossivel, uma imagem dessas pesa centenas de megas senao giga e a 56k....

[Euzébio]

Petroviski, um erro não justifica o outro. A desonestidade é bola de neve, conforme rola ganha volume, torna-se maior.

Quando se trata de uma agência governamental, existe algo chamado segurança nacional que não pode ser menosprezado. Se existe algo oculto de tamanhas proporções, se se trata de tecnologia que pode ser empregada em guerras então, imagina cair em mãos inábeis...

[Britan]

Petroviski, um erro não justifica o outro. A desonestidade é bola de neve, conforme rola ganha volume, torna-se maior.

Quando se trata de uma agência governamental, existe algo chamado segurança nacional que não pode ser menosprezado. Se existe algo oculto de tamanhas proporções, se se trata de tecnologia que pode ser empregada em guerras então, imagina cair em mãos inábeis...

Plenamente de acordo amigo, só um reparo, aqui há uns anos atrás por muita segurança que tivessem as falhas também eram muitas, era o inicio da era internet onde por exemplo com uns amigos se podia fazer defaces a sites sem problemas entrar em pcs alheios etc, isto porque os sistemas de segurança não eram o que são hoje,portanto falhas importantes e graves poderiam ter ocorrido

[Petrovski]

Aham, repetindo, eu concordo com você Euzébio, mas talvez fosse assim que o hacker pensasse, entende?

[Latorre]

Bom, pra varia, a idéia já começou errada.

Vamos estudar os objetivos do tio Gary: ele "vasculhou os arquivos da Nasa para encontrar provas da utilização de tecnologia alienígena".

Ou seja, qualquer tecnologia que ele não conhecesse, ou que não pudesse explicar, seria taxada automaticamente de alienígena. Fácil né? Fala sério... mesmo que ele fosse PhD em tecnologia, continuaria sem cabimento...

Mais: o cara invadiu força aérea, exército, aeronáutica, depto de defesa e Nasa. Tem mais é que ir pra cadeia mesmo. Defesa nacional ão é brincadeira não!

[Britan]

continuação da história com actualização:



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Home Secretary extradites UFO hacker

Extradited to US to face men in black

By Nick Farrell: sexta-feira 07 julho 2006, 07:57
A UK hacker who claimed he was searching for UFO records in US military computers has been formally extradited to the US to face trail.

The extradition was granted by UK home secretary John Reid and is the second to last stage before Gary McKinnon has to pack his bags. He has 14 days to appeal against Reid's order.

McKinnon told the Beeb he was "very worried" and feeling very let down by the government.

The US claims that McKinnon caused more than £375,235 worth of damage while poking around the computer networks at various US military institutions.

It says that one attack at the Earle Naval Weapons Station took place soon after 11 September 2001 and made it impossible to use critical systems.

One of the defence teams concerns is that he will be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect and never be seen again.




PS: atacar após o 11 setembro computadores ligados a defesa é no minimo de mau gosto

[Latorre]

Got liebe...

...de onde sai isso? Do Jornal Infinito???