Thursday, October 29, 2009

Grey (gray) elephant in the room?

Just because I left my house unlocked does not give you the right to walk in and look around. You are committing the civil offence of trespass. Provided you break or take nothing that is not a serious crime although I may be understandably jolly cross you came in uninvited.

Instead of a house let us talk IT systems; specifically let us talk U.S. defence (defense) and space agency IT systems. Systems you might reasonably expect to be quite secure. Not least, that if certain credible sources are to be believed, these systems are being probed and attacked every minute of every day. Culprits may include Chinese and Russian intelligence gathering operations, muslim radicals usw.

With all this going on who does the U.S. choose to pursue with extreme vigour for infiltrating their IT systems? Gary McKinnon, a British loner with Asperger's syndrome, who was, reputedly, searching for information on the U.S. government's knowledge of sentient extraterrestrials and their respective technologies. Given everything else going on in the world why would the U.S. Government be so keen to dissuade citizens of the world from seeking the 'truth' about UFOs and 'aliens'? And why aren't the world's press asking that bloody obvious question?

Thursday, October 01, 2009