17 Year Old Hacks Into Pentagon, Learns Location Of U.S. Warheads. Kid: "It Was Child's Play."

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[demlosers]

BS!

Relax
I doubt if this boy cracked anything classified. Since I have work with classified DOD computer systems before, the good stuff doesn't even touch the Internet. Getting by the crypto is not "childs play."

He may have seen some stuff he thought was classified, or it was classified on an unclassified computer, in which some fool could get in trouble for.

And the other thing about the guy seeing raw video feed from Bosnia, The pentagon said it was intended to go unsecure.

The source for this story seems suspect to me.

[CholeraJoe]

In follow up to #41 here is a shot of a missle silo in Montana from Terraserver.

It's the square patch in the middle. That's I-15 running next to it.

[Straight Vermonter]

Geez with Windows 2000 I have a hell of a time accessing the computers I am supposed to be on!

[Spruce]

If I recall correctly; the military stopped using the public internet for comminication well over 10 years ago. The only .mil sites on the internet as we know it contain no sensitive data. I suspect the kid hacked into a trap.

[donozark]

Private as far as I know. Could not locate on OTCBB nor NASDAQ. I should say I have no financial interest in it. I only passed along the web addy as I understand the product is same as that being distributed by gov.

Also, a Tri-State driver I know has carried them for sometime now...

Not sure what they will do if the time comes. But for $10? Why not?

[NeoCaveman]

I should say I have no financial interest in it.

I wasn't accusing, I was looking for an investment.

[donozark]

No problem. My statements tend to be rather short, even curt. Not meant that way. From an investment point of view? Not sure, not qualified to give investment advice-and my portfolio demonstrates such!

I did check the packet itself and upon opening it says "distributed by Anbex NYNY 10016. Still unable to locate on OTC.

[swatter]

Is it any wonder the AlQaeda know the military's every move before they do? Is it any wonder binnie von lauden was always two steps ahead until they got him on the run?

[_Jim]

"It Was Child's Play."

Yes it was child's play - because hacking tools have gotten easier to use to the point where an idiot (as proof here and drivers on our nation's roads and highways demonstrates) can do it ...

[ibme]

I see absolutely no serious attempts to stop hackers. If you have DSL or Cable, someone will be banging on your computer all day long.

I think that firewalls should automatically report all unauthorized attempted entries to a central database with date, time and port number. After a while, there would be a trail of where these twerps are coming from. ISPs could be alerted that their systems are being abused and with date, time and port numbers a lot of the twerps could be pinpointed. There are some attempts now to store data on spammers.

It would bust the training wheels off of the less tricky hackers.

There is a firewall software for Macs that sends reports back to ISPs that unauthorized port scans are coming from, that's a good start.

[GlesenerL]

Big risk of them getting into a nuke missle site and stealing the warhead....right?

And then arming and detonating would be easy...right?

The ignorant author also believes we still have "multi-megaton" weapons on our ICBMs.

[OldFriend]

Let this child play in JAIL where he belongs.

[a_Turk]

Give the kid a scholarship..

Then stop flying by the seat of your pants and calling it freedom.

[JSteff]

The British guy did not hack, the images are being broadcast on commercial satellites. As to the kid, I wonder how much of those types of hacks are actually misinformation being allowed by the military.

[jimtorr]

Loose lips? Come on, join the internet generation. There are web sites that advertise that sort of thing. If the Air Force wanted the location kept secret, they wouldn't have allowed an interstate to be built just outside the gate.

[crystalk]

Marcus Hirsch (name sounds Jewish anyway), of Austria and aged 17, ought to be offered US citizenship and immediate employment at the NSA or other selected agency.

He joins his countryman, Arnold S., neither of them could ever rise in Austria to the level they will here.

[Amerigomag]

The TV satellite pix were NOT HACKED

Apparently in your world "hacked" means "malicious hacking".

By common definition the signals were hacked since they were not readily available through commercial subscription.

[Mitchell]

Trust me, there are no unprotected NT servers sitting around at Army Installations. Besides, even if there were some NT servers with security holes in them.... our routers have the ports blocked.

Are there people in the U.S. government who might bring a laptop home, say, and connect it to a LAN at their house? What about an official who connects to a government computer from home but has perhaps had a Trojan-horse keystroke logger installed on his home machine. I'm sure things are much better protected now than they were before the "hackers' war" in 2001, but still.... There are many ways to skin a cat. [And, notwithstanding the "hackers' war," this isn't about the defacement of web sites.]