There are some really strange ideas here -
> "He was accused of stealing the International Space Station’s source code controlling critical life-sustaining elements worth $ 1.7 million."
This makes for an exciting sentence, but doesn't make sense - as far as I can tell he didn't deprive them of their $1.7 million dollar code (I assume he just made a copy), and there is absolutely no opportunity cost here - it's not like he had a space station or was going to give it to someone else with a space station, stopping NASA getting revenue that they may had...
I find it very hard to see any way that that could be called 'stealing' or why the $1.7 million figure is relevant at all...
That doesn't excuse messing around in other people's systems of course.
> "His actions put NASA on hold for three weeks, costing them $41,000 because they had to check and of course fix the system."
Surely it was NASA's bad security practices that cost them $41,000 - do they really think if he hadn't found the problem, they wouldn't ever have had to fix their insecure systems?
> "He was accused of stealing the International Space Station’s source code controlling critical life-sustaining elements worth $ 1.7 million."
This makes for an exciting sentence, but doesn't make sense - as far as I can tell he didn't deprive them of their $1.7 million dollar code (I assume he just made a copy), and there is absolutely no opportunity cost here - it's not like he had a space station or was going to give it to someone else with a space station, stopping NASA getting revenue that they may had...
I find it very hard to see any way that that could be called 'stealing' or why the $1.7 million figure is relevant at all...
That doesn't excuse messing around in other people's systems of course.
> "His actions put NASA on hold for three weeks, costing them $41,000 because they had to check and of course fix the system."
Surely it was NASA's bad security practices that cost them $41,000 - do they really think if he hadn't found the problem, they wouldn't ever have had to fix their insecure systems?