Abismo entre "El Mundo Real" y los "Mundos Redes"

Los hackers poseen mentes ágiles, o de menos pacientes; horas frente a la pantalla de un ordenador devienen en desfalcos bancarios, transacciones fantasmas por millones de dólares, filtraciones a información confidencial o los llamados "robos de identidades" (por poner los ejemplos más obvios). Entre 2001 y 2002 un londinense de nombre Gary McKinnon, llegó a información clasificada dentro de un servidor de la NASA, se dice vió imágenes de ovnis, jaja. A continuación reproduzco un fragmento de la entrevista realizada por Spencer Keller de la BBC a McKinnon, en donde habla sobre lo que encontró al irrumpir en el servidor de la NASA:
"SK: Did you find what you were looking for?
GM: Yes.
SK: Tell us about it.
GM: There was a group called the Disclosure Project. They published a book which had 400 expert witnesses ranging from civilian air traffic controllers, through military radar operators, right up to the chaps who were responsible for whether or not to launch nuclear missiles.
They are some very credible, relied upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there's anti-gravity, there's free energy, and it's extra-terrestrial in origin, and we've captured spacecraft and reverse-engineered it.
SK: What did you find inside Nasa?
GM: One of these people was a Nasa photographic expert, and she said that in building eight of Johnson Space Centre they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. What she said was there was there: there were folders called "filtered" and "unfiltered", "processed" and "raw", something like that.
I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.
But what came on to the screen was amazing. It was a culmination of all my efforts. It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made.
It was above the Earth's hemisphere. It kind of looked like a satellite. It was cigar-shaped and had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, the right and both ends of it, and although it was a low-resolution picture it was very close up.
This thing was hanging in space, the earth's hemisphere visible below it, and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.
SK: Is it possible this is an artist's impression?
GM: I don't know... For me, it was more than a coincidence. This woman has said: "This is what happens, in this building, in this space centre". I went into that building, that space centre, and saw exactly that.
SK: Do you have a copy of this? It came down to your machine.
GM: No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application, so there's nothing to save on your hard drive, or at least if it is, only one frame at a time.
SK: So did you get the one frame?
GM: No.
SK: What happened?
GM: Once I was cut off, my picture just disappeared.
SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture?
GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across.
SK: You acknowledge that what you did was against the law, it was wrong, don't you?
GM: Unauthorised access is against the law and it is wrong.
SK: What do you think is a suitable punishment for someone who did what you did?
GM: Firstly, because of what I was looking for, I think I was morally correct. Even though I regret it now, I think the free energy technology should be publicly available.
I want to be tried in my own country, under the Computer Misuse Act, and I want evidence brought forward, or at least want the Americans to have to provide evidence in order to extradite me, because I know there is no evidence of damage" (McKinnon en BBC, 5.05.2006).
Quién sabe si en realidad Gary vió estas imágenes o qué era exactamente lo que vió. Lo cierto es que hoy en día, años después, EUA demanda la extradición de McKinnon de su Inglaterra natal, en donde se le ha prohibido usar Internet y está bajo observación continua del gobierno. En un tribunal inglés se determinó que no hay elementos para evitar el traslado de Mckinnon a EUA, en tanto el Ministro del Interior firme la orden, Gary será extraditado.
¿Para qué solicitar Gary McKinnon el traslado y no sólo eso, sino que tan sólo por acceder a esta información se demande su encarcelamiento por 60 años y una indemnización de 2 millones de dólares?
"Solo", como era su nickname en los círculos de hackers, es únicamente un ejemplo de las posibilidades que tenemos de quebrar las barreras desde una computadora personal. Como el inglés indicaba en la misma entrevista: "Unlike the press would have you believe, it wasn't very clever. I searched for blank passwords, I wrote a tiny Perl script that tied together other people's programs that search for blank passwords, so you could scan 65,000 machines in just over eight minutes" (Mckinnon en BBC, 5.05.2006).
Probablemente las agencias de inteligencia saben que si por cualquier cosa Gary tiene un tiempo a solas con una miserable conexión telefónica a Internet, es capaz de descifrar muchos más códigos que el charlatán de Dan Brown. Esperemos estas posibilidades lleven a una lógica más coolaborativa en lugar de una más coercitiva y prohibitiva: no sólo debemos pensar en reestructurar las leyes, sino nuestra forma de ver el mundo.

¿Qué es lo peor que puede pasar.......que sempamos que E.T. ha regresado para filmar la secuela?