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Gary McKinnon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

So they have these special commands for auditing where you see the machine, the PC, the number, the serial number, the date when it was last maintained, all stuff like that, and the building it's in.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

So I ran those commands.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

That produced a list.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And I stripped out, I think it was about 1500 machines or maybe 150 machines.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

But, um, once I stripped out the building eight machines, uh, there was only like a dozen maybe.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And, uh, I ran the blank password script on them.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And I think about half of them were accessible.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And the first one I looked at was the one where I saw the picture and it was strange.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

It was, um, I did a lot of network support before that as well.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And most users' desktops are covered in stuff, short cards, emails, like electronic post-it notes.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And these were very bare desktops.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

All they had was like two folders, raw and process, and maybe a couple of other shortcuts.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And so I thought, I've got to look at this.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

It's got to be images.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

It's where she said it was.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

It looks like images.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

It says raw, it says processed.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

And I double clicked into the folders and it's a proprietary NASA image format that I can't run on my desk.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

Not a JPEG, not a PNG.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
The Man That Hacked NASA and Found UFOs [Interview w/ Gary McKinnon]

So what I had to do was basically, there was a, what was it called?