US and UK governments are common bedfellows. Nobody has the courage to stand up to them? Everyone should! They are horrible automatons.

Of course we're extraditing him, our lords and masters (aka the Americans) have said that they want him. And what has he done? He forced the American's to spend millions of dollars on firewalls, that they should have had in the first place. He also wrote some silly notes onto their computers. He wasn't trying to destroy their systems, he was hunting for proof of space aliens, that he "knew" the Americans had. Sad, isn't he.

Mr. McKinnon clearly found something that the US and the EU can't overlook Mr. McKinnon might at that occasion have overlooked something and not noticed the important things he just happened to cross. His case reminds me of an old Movie with Sean Connery called The Rock where Sean Connery is jailed indefinitely by the US government unofficially held as a SAS spy in captivity. Mr. McKinnon probably found the missing link in the World in the World theory where actual UFO treaties and knowledge of extraterrestrial or extra dimensional contact has been established between different world governments within the acting governments and as such Mr. McKinnon is a existentional threat to life as we know it and current world order along with historical and ethical corner stones both scientific and existentional may be on the line here. Of course more safe to keep him under the gun as a potential terrorist and hope he actually take his own life as we all know that the label terrorist is the perfect excuse to keep anyone indefinitely and without any real chance to a fair trial. Mr. McKinnon’s discoveries however does not have to include Mr. Mckinnon himself no matter how unlikely he might have crossed into the lions den or not. Mr. Mckinnon is probably completely unaware himself what he actually stumbled upon so if this message slips through RT censorship it’s a minor miracle.

As a UK citizen I am ashamed and angry at this decision. This just goes to show how much the UK government is dominated by the US. There would be no way on earth that the US would extridite its citizens to the UK, let alone one who is allegedly suffering from mental health issues.

LOL Shilka.maskirovka, we live in miraculous times. Nice to see that some messages make it past the censors. I do not think McKinnon will get a fair trial here in the US. But he should be thankful for small favors if he was not called an "enemy combatant". If he had been called that, he would not even get a trial. Straight to Gitmo with him!

Did he cause any harm? Did he destroy anything? Then employ him, don't jail him, this isn't useful to anyone? the fact that he is being treated as an example just deductively tells me that , yes, he must have found something, and pissed someone off. also lol, at the censor call, I’ve had i think, one comment censored on this site (and that could have been error) I’ve rarely had a comment posted on the BCC they are literally all censored, so naturally my information flows towards the path of least resistance, I read RT far more now.

lol Well yes I have managed to get censored a few times at RT but I'm sure there where reason for it, RT has become my main news site and I have invited everyone I know to this site, and their satellite programmes of course, family, friends, colleagues and voiced RTs objectivity, knowledge, fair and balanced way to counter news flow. RT is the best simply because they do not seem to follow any clear agenda, BBC, CNBC, CNN, and Fox News, not to mention Swedish news outlets that is all pink mindless fluff, while RT listens to the people and is more tuned into what people know in reality then other news outlets seems to understand. They also use alternative ways to get their information out to us viewers and readers, and most of the time they are accurate as they use the right channels, channels that people on the Internet use and that is beginning to get better spotlight even amongst the most lobotomised news agencies around this globe. Now this ends my rant about how good RT is, I think Mr. McKinnon stumbled on something of great implications why he is treated as an example. ;)

Shilka.maskirovka, It's good to see people like you coming to the RT site, everyone has an opinion an idea, it is what makes us human. The problem with western media outlets is they try to distill their reader's minds into a a fixed composition, so that the banking elite can control them. They started to learn democracy, but they learn't even faster how to abuse it. But now to the topic, this hacker. There is no doubt that this guy is a bit of a UFO and techno freak, there is also no doubt that he had zero intention to impair any national security of any sort. Herein lies the problem, the whole criminal intent is being ignored, in favour of a wide sweeping security brush, which has been shown time and time again to deliver injustice and illegality all of its own. Worse the whole power of a state is getting behind those legal abuses of process, leaving an individual exposed to limitless power and manipulation, which he is powerless as one man to resist. This is a sad day for this individual and a sad day for the world, if we all allow a single vunerable person to become subject to state abuses by the US and UK. We either start standing up for vunerable individuals or we all turn our backs like cowards. Medvedev should bring this case up directly with both Washington and London. This isn't a terrorist, this isn't a killer, it is just one misguided techno freak, who needs a slap on the wrist and to be made to have his talents better utilised.

The only thing I can say, I do not remember the USA agreeing to extradite the two fight pilots who killed British troops by careless friendly fire despite the British courts requesting them. Nor do I remember the USA extraditing the CIA agents convicted in Italy. Yet the UK still plays the role of a lap dog to the USA. To the point of extraditing a harmless conspiracy theorist.

Maybe someone should give this guy 1 billion dollars stolen from the pension funds of Russian workers... that seems to be the main reason the UK wont send Russians back to Russia to face trial.

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.

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.