Just months after 9/11, strange messages started appearing across U.S. military computers: “Your security system is crap.” ...

A British computer hacker has stepped out from the shadows to retell his discovery of an alleged UFO photo while accessing NASA's systems. Gary McKinnon was accused of perpetrating the 'biggest ...

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and his wife, author Polly Samson, are paying psychiatry bills for computer hacker Gary McKinnon. McKinnon suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, and had all funding for ...

Gary McKinnon attends a press conference in London, on January 15, 2009, in an attempt to urge the Prime Minister to prevent his extradition to the US. Mr McKinnon currently faces extradition to the ...

Gary McKinnon was arrested in June last year following charges by U.S. prosecutors that he illegally accessed 97 U.S. government computers, including the Pentagon, Army, Navy and NASA systems, and ...

Using the moniker 'Solo', Gary McKinnon broke into 97 US military and NASA computers from London over the course of 13 months, causing outages and deleting files. He also posted a criticism of the ...

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