Expert challenges UFO hacker’s $700k bill

“Professor Eugene Spafford, founder of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Indiana’s Purdue University, said the victim of a cybercrime should not take the blame. If someone broke a door to rob a store, he said, it was usual to charge them the cost of the door.”

Yes, but in this case, McKinnon didn’t even encounter the cyber equivalent of a locked door! He just saw a big sign on the door saying NASA or THE PENTAGON and opened it. He looked around and left. Trespass issues apply perhaps but $700,000 worth of damage? The feds notice they have to lock their doors because disabled people can come wandering in off the street And they charge the disabled guy for the locks? Don’t make me laugh! Seriously, this is so unbelievably unfair and wrong!

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