👩💻Bevan Overview
Mathew "Kuji" Bevan was the first UFO hacker to be arrested.
Mid-'90s: Mathew Bevan
1994 Mathew "Kuji" Bevan Inspired by the articles in Phrack, (and a rumor about Project Green Cheese being a group of 40 hackers who went missing,) Bevan used a Commodore Amiga 500 and 1200 to penetrate the US Air Force, NASA, and NATO.
1996 Bevan is arrested and considered an accomplice of Richard "Datastream Cowboy" Pryce. However, Bevan is let off 18 months later due to lack of evidence. (The US was unwilling to provide evidence of military digital intrusion to a UK court.)
1997 Times of London article when Bevan was released.
Periodicals, newspapers, and the media covered Bevan's case extensively, along with other sources:
1999 U.S. info-warriors crap out in Crown Court. (Archive)
2003 Hacking U.S. Government Computers from Overseas. (Archive)
“Nearly started a third world war.” - Jim Christy, AFOSI
“Possibly the single biggest threat to world peace since Adolf Hitler.” - a Pentagon source
Technical details about Bevan's hack are discussed in this Twitter thread by @hackerfantastic. He accomplished this over a USR 14.4K dial-up modem.
Of note is that he got into a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base system that took no password and saw plans for an antigravity drive:
In getting into that there was one machine on the network where I read current files and future project proposals. I read documents which gave me the impression that they had an anti-gravity engine which was capable of at least Mach 12 to Mach 15. I don't know how exactly how fast that is but I think that is faster than most aircraft we know of today. Supposedly the aircraft which employs this engine uses a reactor to which there were a lot of detailed numbers and figures for, but I have no idea what all this meant. I can remember that the documents referred to a super heavy element, whatever that means. The element is the main fuel for the reactor. The engine worked by making a disturbance of molecules at the front of the craft so that it was able to stop the inertia or G-force inside the craft. I got the impression that this information was the type of material I was looking for because it was far in advance of our current technology and could be something to do with the Roswell UFO. Finding this threw me because I didn't know if this information was a disinformation exercise and that people were meant to get in and find this stuff or if it was real. I can't be sure and this is the one annoying thing.
Bevan also says,
I like to think what I saw was not misinformation.
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