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Interview With Incarcerated NASA Hacker Jeremey Parker

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The Powerbase interviews Jeremey Parker who hacked NASA, stole $250,000 and served 2 years for his crime.

On June 14th, 2011, Jeremey Parker was sentenced to 24 months in prison on charges of wire fraud. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement wherein Parker admitted he gained access to the servers of a subsidiary of Digital River Inc and siphoned approximately $275,000 into his personal bank account, and additionally, broke into two servers operated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center which were responsible for recording oceanographic data from orbiting satellites.

With time served since his arrest in 2010, the end of his two year incarceration in Federal prison is coming up in just a few months. We were able to speak with Jeremey through the limited computer access he is allowed.

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Comments (8)

Khamul ·
If he had to steal money like this, why couldn't he do it from someone more deserving, like the RIAA or MPAA? Or break into CIA servers and disseminate their secrets? NASA's the one US government agency that actually does mostly good work.
dinotrac ·
Gosh. What an ethical outlook:

Shame on you for stealing from people I like.

Thieves are thieves. They steal for their own purposes and they steal where they can.
tuxchick ·
I'm with Khamul. If you're going to be a thief then steal from other thieves, plz.
Khamul ·
@dinotrac: You like the RIAA? The people who steal from the artists and con them into evil contracts, leaving most of them penniless even after having #1 hits?
dinotrac ·
@khamul --

You misread what I wrote, but that's my fault. It would have been more clear had I used quote marks to make clear that I was attributing the sentiment to you, ie --

"Shame you for stealing from people I like."

Thieves are thieves, even when they're stealing from the bad guys.
Khamul ·
oh, sorry about that. I'm not saying I like thieves or anything, just that some thieves are worse than others; it's not all black-and-white. To me, someone who steals bread to eat isn't really bad at all, unlike someone who steals from millions out of pure greed. Between those two extremes, while I don't condone thievery, I'm not going to get very angry about someone who steals from another thief, especially when that thief operates at a much larger scale, defrauding countless people out of huge sums of money; it just seems like a good instance of karma to me.
dinotrac ·
@khamul --

Had he stolen from RIAA (which he didn't), I certainly would have smiled, said "Couldn't happen to a more deserving crew" and condemned the thief. After all, his next target could be, well, NASA.

Bob_Robertson ·
Funded by theft, gets robbed. Crocodile tears.

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