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Old 01-31-2012, 09:16 PM
WTE_Galway WTE_Galway is offline
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Originally Posted by RCAF_FB_Orville View Post
Bottom line is, McKinnon humiliated the US by easily getting into NASA and Pentagon systems with a 300 quid computer ...
Actually not that hard to do.

Back in my undergrad days in the '90s it was a joke in hacker circles that the password to US Navy computers was usually the name of a WWII US battleship.

The sad thing is it was apparently actually true.
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