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Posted on 05/09/2014 6:23:17 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Nicholas Knight and his hacker crew, Digi7al, were a lot like other hacking crews. According to a Federal indictment filed this week, they broke into computers, took information, posted it, and boasted about their exploits.
But there is a key difference: Nicholas Knight was employed by the Navy on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. He called himself a "nuclear black hat," black hat being a common term for a broad array of malicious hackers (think outlaw motorcycle clubs).
Knight was working as sysadmin supporting the ship's nuclear reactor. But the indictment alleges, he was also hacking Los Alamos National Laboratory, AT&T, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Toronto Police Service, and the Navy itself.
. . .Perhaps the scariest haul from their exploits were the 2,500 usernames and passwords of Toronto police affiliates, along with the personal information of 500 police informants. Yikes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Is he exempt from prosecution?
Is he exempt from prosecution?
[Is he exempt from prosecution?]
No—he’s been indicted in federal court.
The downfall of many a hacker.
Link to DOJ press release on indictment:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/okn/news/2014/teamdigi7al0505.html
So that’s why Rob Ford was acting so strange.
As opposed to an Air Force or Army Nuclear Aircraft Carrier?
Gibbs wouldn’t have known how to catch these people but he would’ve put McGee on it...and they’d have been toast.
He hacked Los Alamos? Is that the same place where you see all the middle eastern types walking around? /s
Sounds like an NCIS script though.
or one of our many non-nuclear aircraft carriers? /sarc
No, it was one of those new-fangled solar powered TSA glider carriers.
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Jails a bitch and so is his future roommate, or will it be him?
“Keelhaul” him.
I meant his he one of Holder’s people, or a sexual deviant, or Amish, or some combination thereof?
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