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Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker known for perpetrating one of the largest military computer hacks of all time in 2002. He broke into numerous US military computers over a period of 13 months, accessing and downloading classified information. McKinnon faces 20 charges in the US for stealing computer files and causing damage, with his hack costing the US military $700,000 to address the security issues. While McKinnon claims he was searching for evidence of UFO cover-ups and free energy suppression, his actions violated US computer laws.

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Gary Mckinnon Hacking Presentation

Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker known for perpetrating one of the largest military computer hacks of all time in 2002. He broke into numerous US military computers over a period of 13 months, accessing and downloading classified information. McKinnon faces 20 charges in the US for stealing computer files and causing damage, with his hack costing the US military $700,000 to address the security issues. While McKinnon claims he was searching for evidence of UFO cover-ups and free energy suppression, his actions violated US computer laws.

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Gary McKinnon

Solo
By: Elijah Esquierdo

Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems
administrator and hacker.
His Nationality is British.
He has a citizenship in the United
Kingdom and the United Kingdom
only.
He is known for computer hacking.

More Info
He was born on the 10th of February
1966 (age 49) Glasgow, Scotland.
biggest military attack of all time was
done on a computer at his girlfriends
aunts house.
People protested over the US military
not wanting to share that kind of data
with the public.
He is accused in 2002 of perpetrating
the biggest military hack of all time.

Info
Gary also was accused of copying data, account
files and passwords onto his own computer.
The nickname he used when he attacked all
those computers was solo to hide his real
name.
His huge hack cost the US military $700,000
just to track him and correct the problems.
The whole incident had to do with him looking
for free energy suppression and cover-ups of
UFO activity.

Broken Laws
He currently faces 20 charges in the
US, including stealing computer files,
obtaining secrets that might have
been "useful to an enemy",
intentionally causing damage to a
protected computer, and interfering
with maritime navigation equipment
in New Jersey.

Ethical Issues
Nothing about this is right from a
governments standpoint.
Gary wanted to find secrets that the
US Military had been holding from
the public.
It was right for him to want to know,
but the wrongs were hacking into the
US Military computer systems adding
$700,000 to their budgets.

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