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Pentagon Hacker's mother on US extradition decision

Mother on '10 years of zombified life' (bbc, video)

A computer hacker from north London will find out in the next 48 hours if he will to be extradited to the United States.

Gary McKinnon, who is 46-years-old and has Asperger's Syndrome, is accused of hacking into computer systems at the Pentagon.

If he is convicted in the US, he could face up to 60 years in jail.

The BBC's Tim Muffet has been speaking to his mother, Janis Sharp, who fears Mr McKinnon could take his own life if extradited.

Leon Panetta warns of 'cyber Pearl Harbour'

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has warned that the threat from cyber-attacks on US interests is growing, in a speech to business leaders in New York.

He highlighted the virus unleashed this summer in the Gulf, which knocked out 30,000 computers, disrupting major oil and gas companies.

Indeed Princess Jaan

I saw this documentary on French German ARTE TV yesterday and found it was very interesting to share it with you here.

Like they say : Kheily Khar too Khar Shod een ghazyeh ! ;0)

But what I found fascinating in this documentary was that all the technology available doesn't replace human intelligence or interpretation. Had the NSA people accepted to share their knowledge with the CIA or FBI we probably could have avoided 9/11 ...

Instead the result was counterproductive in that today every private citizen's email is watched and scrutinized to the smallest detail.

But the problem remains unchanged cause the volume of information that the NSA collects has to be filtered and that requires hours of classification that will require smarter algorithms.

What was very interesting was the way it graphically  illustrated how an email is transmitted from one part of the world to America through from one router to another and under the sea through fiber optics in just a fraction of a second.

In the end it is still Khar too Khar in terms of results ... LOL

They must be laughing at our emails here too ;0)

But nevertheless I found the documentary to be very well done and interesting.

The innocent population pays for the incompetency of "experts"

The US intelligence cocked up big time, and now the innocent population has to pay the price. What amazes me, is that 8 years later they still failed to connect the dots with the Christmas incident.

Thanks for sharing this.