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UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-get-caught dept.

the4thdimension writes "A UK man, accused of breaking into US Pentagon and NASA computers in March 2001, lost an extradition appeal that would have freed him, or at least had him tried in the UK. While the US accuses him of causing over $900,000 in computer damage, his attorney asserts that, if extradited to the US, he faces harsh penalties that are "intolerable" and '...the British government declined to prosecute him to enable the U.S. government to make an example of him.' He intends to appeal to the European courts."

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  1. I remember this guy by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't he just use Microsoft's Remote Desktop to "hack into" those systems?

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    1. Re:I remember this guy by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 3, Funny

      Didn't he just use Microsoft's Remote Desktop to "hack into" those systems?

      Obviously not. To cause $900k worth of damage, these systems must have been running really powerful software (read: something else).

    2. Re:I remember this guy by blindd0t · · Score: 5, Funny

      $900,000 makes it sound like he may have downloaded a song or two off one or more of the servers he 'hacked'. I'm being facetious, of course. ^_^

    3. Re:I remember this guy by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 2, Funny

      As far as I can tell, the $900k comes from having to employ actual network administrators instead of a bunch of faeces-flinging monkeys.

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  2. The truth is out there. by Xacid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aliens as a defense? Why didn't I think of that?

  3. Re:Ah the Uk by amliebsch · · Score: 2, Funny

    But we've got to come down hard on people breaking in to Pentagon computers. Otherwise the WOPR is at risk!

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  4. Re:Crappy retarded cliché by gnick · · Score: 2, Funny

    This story has been in the British press for a few days, and I find the whole thing disgusting. As mentioned elsewhere, the $900k was the cost of securing these systems after this guys just walked in with default windows passwords...

    I wish I could do that... I'd build a quick frame with a roof and move in my furniture and appliances. Maybe even put up a front door with no knob. As soon as somebody wandered in through my open walls, sue them for the cost of putting up walls and installing locks.

    Great business model!

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  5. Re:one-way treaty by gnick · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Your post however does not add any value. People bitching about how a comment was rated are pathetic and makes me want to put a gun in my mouth. How can you have so little meaning in your life that you could possible even think of writing something of so little value...

    Mod parent Insightful!!! =)

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  6. Re:Crappy retarded cliché by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyway, this nonsensical BS should be rejected by the European Court of Justice. Unlike the US Supreme court, it's not stacked with crypto-fascists like Antonin Scalia.

    Crypto-fascists? I mean, sure, everyone who has one jealously guards their GPG/PGP private keys to prevent misuse and impersonation, but what does Scalia do that takes him to an extreme in his key management?

  7. Re:Crappy retarded cliché by jambox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyway, this nonsensical BS should be rejected by the European Court of Justice

    That's probably why the UK government folded to the yanks on this. Why p1ss off the yanks when the French are dying to do it for you?

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