"According to the U.S. government, the Polish-born McKinnon caused $700,000 worth of damage and rendered critical systems inoperable at Earle Naval Weapons Station in northern New Jersey shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."

Do you wonder, as I do, how that $700,000 was measured? Did he break ten thousand hard disc drives each worth seventy miserable dollars? Did it perhaps take staff whose pay totalled that much to fix the files he looked at but didn't alter? Or are we being showered with shit by two governments at once?

You decide, I have passed out.

PS You have to be impressed by the way he went back in time and caused the 2001 terrorist attack on America, don't you? Or are they mentioning something that has nothing to do with some silly sod who thought he could find out what the Americans were hiding in secret files about UFOs? Make him seem worse by connecting him with Islamic maniacs? Sure, that's got to be fair...