Gary McKinnon

And once you find a blank password, and these are Windows networks, you need to become the administrator, which is like, you know, the highest local account.

And eventually the domain administrator, which controls the entire network.

So once I was on one PC or a network, I'd then attack the domain server and get that password.

And that's through dictionary attacks, password cracking.

I actually used a tool called Loftcrack.

I don't know if that's still around.

And once I'd done that, it's a huge job for one person.

Huge job.

So I found a program called LandSearch.

This is all commercially off-the-shelf available software.

And what land search enabled me to do was to type in a search term and it would search every file and folder on all the local PCs that I had control of, which could be

I think the largest I did was 5,000 at one time, which took hours, you know, the whole night.

Um, so yeah, that's how I, that was my system for making it doable for one person.

And also it depends on your search terms.

These files aren't going to be called UFO secrets.

Um, so I had to look for things like, you know, secret, top secret, um, just anything just to, and PDF, PDF documents.

A lot of stuff was in PDF back then.

And the redacting they did on PDF back then was not fully redacted.

You could unredact it once you downloaded the file to your own PC.

So it was a huge network-wide document search and just grabbing what I could, spending hours getting it, then spending hours reading it and trawling through it.