hacker gary mckinnon update

Blogger Grant Lawrence reminds us in recent Alternet post, "Mckinnon has said consistently in numerous interviews that the US has advanced Space Fleets that are capable of star travel. He has never backed down from his assertions. Maybe Mckinnon has not said all he knows." A reader should ask what lies behind intense efforts to extradite McKinnon? Lawrence asks in a similar vein, "But what is making the US government so adamant about bringing Mckinnon to justice in the US?" Lawrence is led to a conclusion, the facts of the case would lead many of us, "maybe it is because Gary Mckinnon spilled the beans on what he saw and he shouldn’t have... Secret technologies are evidently supposed to be secret no matter how it would benefit humanity."


A 2006 Wired article, "'UFO Hacker' Tells What He Found," shows McKinnon freely providing details of his hacking adventure, "A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files. My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected."

Is there more than McKinnon has revealed? It's the only sufficient explanation for the sustained pressure on the hacker, over the years, a constant reminder to remain quiet. You may view a previous blog entry on McKinnon's plight here. A recent update at Free Gary McKinnon shows news release of continued effort by US to extradite him. The present writer wonders, what else does McKinnon know and possibly holding back for his own safety?

computer mediated telepathy

Does this technology represent the point where man is despiritualized and assimilated? DARPA pushes Silent Talk program with four million dollar allocation, reports Danger Room. The research will attempt to decode EEG patterns for individual words and determine whether they can be generalized? Ultimately, the goal will be to transmit those EEG patterns over a limited range! Soldiers will broadcast their thoughts! You may think it sounds far out? Duke neuroscientists funded by the Pentagon, have trained a monkey named Idoya to walk upright on a treadmill and control a robot's movements in Japan by only her thoughts! Is this a product of Transhumanism movement? Will electode implantation result in a diminished spirituality or a despiritualized robo-sapien?

gary mckinnon extradition on hold?

Gary McKinnon, a cyber-cult hero, who hacked into Pentagon computers years ago, is nearing the end of his appeals to prevent his extradition from the UK.  The US military wants to make McKinnon an "anti-hacking poster boy" as Gary summarizes it.  "Every one of us has, at one time or another, fantasized about staying up all night, smoking weed and hacking into top-secret U.S. government computers," as Geoffrey Wansell writes in a recent Our Strange World article, "The UFO Hacker's Last Stand". You have to like the style.  McKinnon is, perhaps, even an anti-hero raging against the system.  The UFO hacker's extradition, at last check, is on hold due to a review of McKinnon's medical condition, Asperger's syndrome. What did he see:  lists of non-terrestrial ships and crew members, also, material on free energy. Let Gary tell you in his own words in a very cogent interview on hacking into Pentagon computers. McKinnon makes it sound easy just a software package such as Remotely Anywhere and a Perl script pasted into a hacking program to search for default passwords. Gary did this on a 28K modem connection!  Wow!  A person wonders what will ever come of this case since McKinnon's rearrest in 2005? There are efforts to defeat the extradition in the UK, one website is www.freegary.org.uk. A timeline of the UFO Hacker's saga is available here.

mystery missile may have been an errant launch?

Los Angeles Times article suggests, according to aerospace experts, mystery missile "...appeared to be an errant missile launch." The article from last Tuesday reported Pentagon's cryptic response to the fiery incident, "...[Pentagon] officials said the event was not a threat to national security. They also said it was not a launch by a foreign military... Each branch of the military has denied involvement..." Aerospace experts "...believe it originated near Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Ventura County, where missiles and missile defense exercises are regularly carried out... The military also operates a floating ocean platform and regularly carries out tests at San Nicolas Island, one of the Channel Islands." Aeropace experts shared their opinion after viewing the video on what could have been the source of the plume, "...a large military rocket or missile." An errant missile launch is a possibility.

mystery missile from chinese property at sea?

Monday's mystery missile launch off the coast of California is still generating rumors.   What's circulating in the ether is less than reassuring!  Doug Hagmann writes in, "Of missiles & money -- don't ask, won't tell" at Canada Free Press,  "according to one source within the Pentagon, many of the top brass were in unscheduled, high level meetings throughout the day... The rumors circulating 'within the [Pentagon] rings' suggest that it was a deliberate launch of a missile from "Chinese property at sea" intended as a warning to the U.S." The article seems a commentary on the sad state of economic affairs in the United States as the author wasn't certain what was meant by "Chinese property"? Hagmann adds with a touch of black humor, "I can only assume that it did not originate from Catalina Island or U.S. military ships in the area, as we still own those, at least to my knowledge." Is it Sun Tzu 101?