Brit hack suspect faces extradition fight

Found this tonight (morning to you)

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11199

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A Briton suspected of hacking into numerous US military and NASA computers faces an extradition fight following his arrest in London on Tuesday

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The US government claims it spent $1m fixing the damage allegedly caused by McKinnon, who was indicted in 2002 by a Federal Grand Jury over eight computer crime offences. The offences are punishable on conviction by up to five years in prison.

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this is the bit I thought funny.. here is an off the shelf program..

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He is accused of scanning networks for vulnerabilities prior to using a software program called RemotelyAnywhere to snoop on network traffic and erase files.

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I wonder what he used to scann the networks.. GFI LAN Scan?