Gary McKinnon, the extra-terrestrial-seeking NASA hacker who was apprehended last month, has explained how he managed to hack into NASA’s computers, along with those of several other government agencies, and what he found there.

According to the 39-year old Londoner, he simply searched for senior network administrators who didn’t use passwords.

Oops.

“You get on to easy networks, like Support and Logistics, in order to exploit the trust relationship that military departments have between each other, and once you get on to an easy thing, you find out what networks they trust and then you hop and hop and hop, and eventually you think, ‘That looks a bit more secretive,’” said McKinnon, in an interview this week with The Guardian.

And apparently he was not the only one. According to McKinnon, he had company on those systems in the form of hackers from all around the globe.

“Once you’re on the network, you can do a command called NetStat…

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