Sunday, July 9th, 2006, 6:28 am
BBC Confuses Hacker and Cracker, Again
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The bad reputation that the press is giving the term “hacker” is getting. Too. Much. To bear. From this morning’s news.
Supporters of Gary McKinnon have condemned the decision to let the former hacker be extradited to the US.
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“The US Government is scapegoating Gary McKinnon to cover up their ownshortcomings as systems administrators,” he told the BBC News website. “Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
For the record, the system administrators did not change the default password, so McKinnon had a look at some files and changed the desktop’s wallpaper. This is based on something that I read in a fairly reliable source last year. It seems as though the current American regime is becoming irrational and suppressive.
