UK Blocks Extradition of Hacker Gary McKinnon

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Did he actually disable all those computers or did the USA government disable those computers because when they noticed a security breach they panicked and didn't know what else to do besides overreact?
 
He has asperger's syndrome, should not be extradited if he is mentally ill. The yanks will mistreat the shit out of him, the world needs to be very careful who they extradite to the US. Only convicted criminals should ever be extradited coz an innocent person is fucked anyway. They won't get a fair trial and will be proven guilty if that's what the US wants. Also you should never be extradited there if u didn't commit a crime there. My understanding is he was in Britain when he hacked into the shitty networks. Someone needs to share the atrocities committed by the US government to keep them accountable. There just like the Russians.
 
If this guy was able to pull off hacking into the Pentagon and NASA on a 56k modem then it's scary to think what a team of real hackers from China,Russia,India..etc have been able to get into.

I still think this is some kind of disinformation being spread but if it's true then the people in charge of security should be the ones being interrogated.
 
Whoever was in charge of the IT security at these "hacked" facilities should be the person on trial. How god damn long did it take them to find out that someone using a dial up modem was getting in to their systems from overseas? It must've taken an hour to do anything - this could not have even been a one day ordeal...
 
About damn time this hideous charade ended, and for onc the UK govt has made the right and moral choice instead of bending over and bracing themselves for yet another ass-reaming by the US.
 
[citation][nom]fonzy[/nom]If this guy was able to pull off hacking into the Pentagon and NASA on a 56k modem then it's scary to think what a team of real hackers from China,Russia,India..etc have been able to get into.I still think this is some kind of disinformation being spread but if it's true then the people in charge of security should be the ones being interrogated.[/citation]

Please note this quote:

"McKinnon has been battling extradition to the United States for a decade."

This happened back in 2002, 56K modems were still pretty standard even for that time...now trying to do that now? Yeah, no, ain't going to happen.
 
so, his illness makes him a great hacker... sign me up
it makes me socially awkward and clumsy... sign me up again...

at least that way i would have some awesome skills and an excuse for being socially awkward and clumsy

with that said, i dont believe anyone who has a mental disorder should EVER be shielded from the law.

someone whos a retard kills people, i believe put him to death, he will never get better
same with people who decide to stop taking medication and turn violent, they will not get better and will become a danger when they decide i don't need meds anymore and stop taking them.
 
This story has finally restored some of my pride in being British.
For over a decade we've heard American politicians and military types saying that Gary will be fried or placed in jail until he rots... no wonder there was fear that he would take his own life.
Now the UK government needs to decide if there is a further case for him to answer with regards to UK law, again another correct choice. I hope they take his medical conditions into account and also accept that for the last decade his life he has been under the most intense fear and that the conditions placed upon him have caused massive problems for his medical condition. We need to accept that he committed a serious crime but also that there are factors that could be considered mitigating for a lot of it.
I think we need to leave it to medical experts and the UK courts to deal with now.
 
[citation][nom]echondo[/nom]Please note this quote:"McKinnon has been battling extradition to the United States for a decade."This happened back in 2002, 56K modems were still pretty standard even for that time...now trying to do that now? Yeah, no, ain't going to happen.[/citation]

modem speed had nothing to do with it. Basically he was running a perl script against .gov and NASA servers that looked for administrator accounts with no password set, it wasn't rocket science.

Doesn't matter at that point really what kind of hardware / software firewall you have in place if you don't actualy bother to set the admin password. Previous posters are right - the people running these servers should have been fired and probably charged with criminal negligence, because at the end of the day McKinnon was only the guy they caught.
 
[citation][nom]deathtojews[/nom]Another criminal slips through the net thanks to liberal faggotry[/citation]

Criminal ? Knowing the truth is a fundamental human right !

Conservative estimates show there are over 2 million dead in Afghanistan and Iraq since the 'war on terror' began. You tell me who the REAL criminals are !

Your vote and tax dollar make YOU an accessory to crimes against humanity ! How do you plead ?

pEACe
 
he attempted to break into a government records for his own gain or purposes. Whether or not you agree that that may or may not be a morally justifiable act, it is still against the law, both here in and the US. He should be sent over to be judged and given just punishment.
 
[citation][nom]Yuka[/nom]Then sedate him and get his "behind" across the sea to the USofA.What a dumb excuse...Cheers![/citation]
...because that would be respecting human rights, correct?
At least, in your twisted "mind".
 
Wow! I always respected the British as my allies. I don't really care about this verdict either way, but I am taken back by your (the posters) vitriol toward me and my countrymen. I guess (thanks to president Bush) the entire world hates us now. Always remember, there are plenty of "yanks across the pond" that don't agree with our politicians. We are *not* all the same, nor are *all* of our politicians corrupt.
 
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