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UK Hacker loses Extradition Case
SnakeOil Steve writes to tell us that Gary McKinnon, the alleged hacker who broke into Army, Air Force, Navy, and NASA systems, has just lost his extradition case. From the article: "'My intention was never to disrupt security. The fact that I logged on and there were no passwords means that there was no security,' McKinnon said, outside the hearing at London's Bow Street Magistrates Court. 'I was looking for UFOs.'"
Much as I think McKinnon is an idiot he should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in the UK: he stands some tiny chance of a fair trial here, along with a proportionate sentence.
A) Why should he be tried in a country where the crime did not take place?
B) Why do you think he won't get a fair trial in the US?
C) From the article "McKinnon faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine." How is that a disproportionate sentence?
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Given the US track record on treatment of detainees, torture, imprisonment without trial and so on I am very suprised and disappointed that any government would willingly allow their citizens to be taken into custody in the US
Given the UK track record on imprisonment and torture of Irish citizens, I find your comments very hypocritical.
Given the US support for Irish Republican Army terrorists, I find the US "War on Terror" very hypocritical.
That would be "freedom fighters". Ah the joys of perspective.
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