Scottish Gary McKinnon, born in 1966, is a computer scientist, system administrator, and hacker. He was charged with what a US prosecutor called “the biggest attack ever on military computers”.
Between February 2001 and March 2002, under the pseudonym “Solo”, McKinnon searched in the computers of NASA, the US Army, the US Navy, the US Air Force, and the Department of Defense, secret documents regarding antigravity, UFO activity and “free energy”. He admitted that he was inspired by the more than 400 credible testimonies — from flight controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles — evoked by the “Disclosure” project.
The American authorities accused him that, in addition to copying some secret data, he would have deleted portions of the operating systems, causing the shutdown of 2000 computers in Washington for 24 hours, blocking a network of 300 other computers of the navy, even in the period after the attacks of September 11, etc., the damages being more than 700,000 dollars.
Identified, he was interrogated by the British police on March 19, 2002, after which travel and Internet access restrictions were imposed on him. When he was detained, for six to seven hours, his personal computer was confiscated, as well as several others that had been brought to him to be repaired. After examining them, they were all returned to him, only the memory disk of his computer being turned off. In the USA he risks up to 70 years in prison and a fine of up to 2 million dollars,
McKinnon admitted that he read unauthorized documents, taking advantage of the negligence of the administrators of those systems, but denied the destructions he is accused of, saying that they were invented, just to get his extradition. In the interviews he gave, for the BBC, the Guardian newspaper, etc., he claimed to have obtained documents important enough to try to negotiate on their basis with the government. The hacker claimed to have found two pieces of evidence related to the UFO phenomenon.
The first would be that, in NASA’s computers, there are “unfiltered” files with photos of UFOs on Earth or in space and “filtered”, in which the same photos appear “cleaned” of…
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