By now most people are familiar with the details of the story of Gary McKinnon, a UK hacker with severe Asperger’s syndrome who in 2001 broke into NASA and Pentagon systems, highlighting the weakness of their security with the well-publicised comments, which included: Â ’your security is crap’.
The point is that the attack came at a time when any such activity was treated with even greater seriousness than before in the aftermath of the destruction of the twin towers, and hence despite the fact that it is now clear McKinnon suffers from serious mental health problems, including extreme depression, and that he was in fact motivated not by some terrorist objective but instead a curiosity about UFO data that he hoped…