Gary McKinnon

And I took some of the names from there.

But all that told you was the network names or the particular department of defense, like some department that owned that network.

So I used a site at the time, which was called Nihi's IP Index.

And this guy had done some work.

He'd used domain search tools and built a huge list of who owns what subnets.

So I could just grab a block, plug it into my script and scan like

a quarter of a million computers in eight minutes, typically 5% would respond.

And then from that 5%, a further 5% would have blank passwords.

Okay, okay, got it.

So you do this like narrowing process and you end up with, what is it, like 97 sites that you can get into or something like that?

Yeah, that was the end result.

Which is a lot of sites.

And what do the sites include as far as acronyms that people would be familiar with or program names people would be familiar with?

Okay, so NSA, I got into Fort Meade, DISA, Defense Information Systems Agency, DOD networks, basic army networks, Navy networks, USAF, USAF force networks.

Okay, wow.

So yeah, those are some pretty intense organizations that, at the very least, we know hold the keys to, you know, all sorts of, you know, military technology secrets that confer a tactical advantage to the US, if not some of these deeper, you know, more interesting mysteries that, you know, you and I share an interest in.

So what do you do next, as far as your search?

And what do you find?

Yeah, okay, so I'm one guy.

I've got potentially thousands of IPs to search the individual computers.