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UK let autistic hacker be extradited to US
Published: 27 November, 2009, 20:28
Edited: 27 January, 2010, 21:14
TAGS: Crime, UK, SciTech, Human rights, Law
The UK has refused to block the extradition of one of its citizens for allegedly hacking into US government computers.
Britain’s High Court ruled last month that Gary McKinnon should be extradited to the United States to be tried for hacking into government computers shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
According to an announcement by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson on Thursday, the government will not intervene in McKinnon’s case.
McKinnon said he was searching for evidence of alien life in US computers. His lawyers claim that the man suffers from a form of autism and extradition might pose a risk to his life.
“The conclusion of the medical report is that if Gary were to be extradited, than suicide is an almost inevitable conclusion,” McKinnon’s lawyer, Karen Todner, told RT.
She added that the authorities are “too scared” not to extradite McKinnon.
“The Americans have made it clear they want him over there, that they want to make an example of him,” Todner said. “They have described him as a terrorist, which frankly is ridiculous, and no one got the courage to stand up to them.”
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A computer specially designed to be hacked into is called a flypaper server or flypaper computer. In it lies files that looks like "candy" but is actually only trash and miscellaneous forgeries. The owners of these paperfly systems learn how hackers crack their systems, so they actually gain knowledge for free from hackers. It's been long time since the days of arpanet and the military have their own systems with tough encrypting and more developed variants of tcp/ip. I don't think any hacker is able to really get to all the juicy stuff via Internet at all. In other words only "they/them" are able to reach info that flows in internet2/milnet or whatever it may be called. Those access points are well guarded 24/7 by counterhackers employed by the government.
I apologize on behalf of my country. Unfortunately, our people are controlled by the media propaganda and governed by the idiotic. I do hope the US does not jail him for "looking for aliens in computers". Unless they have full-fledged proof that he did wrong, he should not be punished. I think the UK really ought to have stood up to the US. If they did, it would have been interesting to see how our leaders would spin the subject to put US in a good light. The US Government is currently on an ego high and had the UK denied this, it would have been a slap in the face. Look, the world needs to realize that "the world's greatest democracy" is probably the farthest thing from democracy. Our leaders make decisions on our behalf, they take away our liberties to "protect" us, and they believe that no one will dare to stand up to the Constitutional Republic of America (aka the USA). This is a challenge to the leaders of the world: Stand up against the US, voice your opinions about our many shortcomings to our face, it's time the world stops being America's b*tch. Please, for everyone's sake, do not fear the US, rather make the US fear you, only then can there be real change.
Extraditing him, is waste of our money,give him a job with the CIA we can use him ??