NASA Hacker Pleads Guilty
Jason Allen Diekman, alias "Shadow Knight"
or "Dark Lord," has pled guilty in a California court to hacking
into hundreds of NASA, US government and university computers. He
could face up to 16 years in prison.
Reuters reports that the 20-year-old pled guilty to federal charges
at a closed-door hearing, entering his plea to US District Judge
Dean Pregerson on Monday.
Gates Hacked NASA - Not Really!
In some humorous news, it seems that the Orange County Register was hacked on September 29th so that an article detailing Jason Diekman's hacks into NASA Web sites read that Bill Gates was responsible instead. Several other sentences in the article were changed to make it look more like Mr. Gates was responsible, as well as naming a source used by prosecution. The Register has since put a, as USA Today puts it, "so-called 'firewall' around the entire server". Read the article over at USA Today if you are interested.