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."

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[bendytendril]

Did anyone else see the humping dog usb ad on the home page? I wish I could've modded the product +5 funny.

Re:Not a death penalty case

[Omnifarious]

There are these things called human rights that we pretend to hold sacred. Strangely, we even publicly state that they should apply to criminals. But, I guess you want to live in a world where they have no rights at all and can be tortured for years on end without even a fair trial. And anybody who is upset that this is how they will be treated "should've thought about that a little earlier".

Sorry, no, I don't agree.

If the Guantanomo Bay torture camps didn't exist I might be in your camp, though the issue of the extradition treaties being highly one-sided is still worth complaining about.