It’s a very rich dish for this first time of “Links & Suggestions“, a category that according to my purpose should become a chest containing those valuable URL addresses that could have been sources for news, analysis and anything else if only I had have the opportunity, the time and the will to engage myself firsthand.
Gary McKinnon, that is the 42 years old Englishman better known as Solo the Pentagon hacker, achieved notoriety in the first years of the new millennium with a series of unauthorized access operations to the most important American computer systems, by which he searched for – as he stated – the truth about the UFOs meanwhile installing backdoors, stealing military secrets and abusing of secret passwords supposedly far from being adequate to the security level of systems they was meant to protect.
The co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, the digital alphabet used in communications among devices connected to the Net, is persuaded to be able to make a revised version of the same standard work in space between the planets of the Solar System, and maybe even beyond. Vinton “Vint” Cerf, who nowadays is vice-president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, works far-back on the extension of network communications beyond the Earth atmosphere.
