Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time," although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew her extradition order to the United States. McKinnon was accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period
Government hacking type of hacking operation a “Network Investigative Technique,” or NIT. In recent years, the government has increasingly turned to hacking as an investigative technique. Since 2002, the US government, in particular the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has employed the use of malware as a tool to aid in virtual criminal investigations. At the beginning of the use of this virtual virus, the main research targets were individual computers. Over the years, the FBI has adopted a form of hacking that allows attacking millions of computers in a single operation, which is usually authorized by only a single judge of