The 26 November Guardian reports on the bungled case of the UK hacker who allegedly threatened US national security by hacking the Rome AFB system (and scaring the bejesus out of the North Koreans to boot) while searching for Area 51 info on aliens. The case was thrown out by the court as way overblown and unproveable, though the USG got a lot of mileage from it for "terrorist threats." It hoots at the USAF's crack cyber-security team in San Antonio who over-mobilized to trace the terrifying teenager by most sophisticated means, not knowing that the kid had already been nabbed by Scotland Yard thanks to a traditional-means informant. Now the officer who led the AF hunt is working the cyber-scare circuit peddling the top gun technology -- top secret of course, can't even be revealed by court order. http://jya.com/naked-gun.htm