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Hacker loses extradition appeal

A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US.
Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers.
He has admitted breaking into the computers from his London home but said he was seeking information on UFOs.
The 42-year-old's lawyers said they would apply to the European Court of Human Rights to prevent his removal.
Mr McKinnon first lost his case at the High Court in 2006 before taking it to the highest court in the UK, the House of Lords.
He was arrested in 2002 but never charged in the UK.
The US government claims he committed a malicious crime - the biggest military computer hack ever.
The authorities have warned that without his co-operation and a guilty plea the case could be treated as terrorism and he could face a long jail sentence.
A statement by solicitors for McKinnon, who was not at the Lords to hear the judgement, said: "Gary McKinnon is neither a terrorist nor a terrorist sympathiser.
"His case could have been properly dealt with by our own prosecuting authorities. We believe that the British government declined to prosecute him to enable the US government to make an example of him.

"American officials involved in this case have stated that they want to see him 'fry'.

"The consequences he faces if extradited are both disproportionate and intolerable."

Why not just let the US State Department run the UK legal system and stop messing about with 'being independent'!!
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Dalton FB · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 28

see him fry Laughing

I love his defence of looking for UFO's

Not going to wash with the yanks that one
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Merak · Inmate of the Asylum Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 214

They should be offering him a job as head as of their I.T security! Laughing