UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal

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."

Comments

I remember this guy

[betterunixthanunix]

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

Re:I remember this guy

[Alwin Henseler]

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).

Re:I remember this guy

[blindd0t]

$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. ^_^

Re:Crappy retarded cliché

[jambox]

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?