Gary McKinnon

I could run that across thousands of machines in minutes and find blank passwords or passwords that were either blank or password, admin, a basic list.

When you do wide-scale phishing like that, you do some fish bite.

And that was my basic method to getting entrance to these places.

And so some of these extremely sensitive American military sites had blank passwords.

Big time.

That's crazy.

I mean,

Although that seems beyond belief, it also makes sense.

Like, the government's way more incompetent than, often especially people in UFO world give them credit for, because we assume they have workable, reverse-engineered crafts that they know how to use at will.

So, like, you, of course, would have passwords set up.

But 2000 is early Internet.

We're still worried about Y2K, you know?

So, like, we didn't really understand how a lot of this stuff worked.

It was this big experiment.

And so, wow, so that sort of fishing thing came up with some fish.

And as you said, the government really isn't tailored for this, especially the military.

They don't, well, they didn't then employ specialized IT workers.

They trained up existing military employees in the basic techniques to run a network.

They weren't advanced security aware guys running government networks or military networks.

While you're doing this, are you just sitting in an apartment or something?