British programmer causes $700,000 damage to the Pentagon, Nasa, and the Johnson Space Center.

Where do they come up with those numbers? Honestly... Could they have stopped him if they had spent $700,000 more on network security? It's not like a DDoS'd them anyway... Is that the over priced number of the work it took to CORRECT the flaws in the first place? Is the cost the money it costs the organizations now to be proactive? Or is it what he says and its the U.S. making an example out of him...???

... And why is data like this on the Internet??? The government obviously has money so why don't they setup relay services or third party networks that are not on the largest public network in the world... The company I work for has many multinational and domestic corporate headquarters. Our internal servers don't use the internet to communicate to each other. I can understand how small corps don't have the money to do the above and resort to setting up VPN's over the Internet but why does the government use public networks for their data???????

Or is it just a question of him hacking the public web servers which have separate interfaces for their internal networks... Hmmm...

The best video to sum it all up... PERIOD. =)

Sending one email to teammates and old friends... About $.02
A request to support a great cause... About 5 seconds.
Receiving a donation to the above cause that may save a life. $20.00
Saving the life of an affected two year old nephew... Millions.

Being told by someone you look up to that email should not be used for personal reasons... Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's corporate politics.

Alex is really growing up fast. He's got Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba down. He can move himself around the house by crawling on all fours or by holding furniture and shuffling sideways. He's ten months old and is almost walking! He drinks out of sippy cups and almost nothing bothers him. I love being a Dad. =) Its the best thing I could ask for on a bd.

Two years ago, Computer Engineering was at the top of the fields for lucrative degrees... Now it is not even on the list... Did the degree get lumped into Computer Science or did something else happen??? I think I'm doing OK for an entry level Computer Engineer but what does this say about the market? It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next decade and if CS degrees in general are a dying breed in the US because of all the outsourcing...

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