UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @01:38AM 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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Re:I remember this guy by Candid88 · 2008-07-30 02:27 · Score: 1, Redundant

He didn't so much "hack into" the Pentagon & NASA, more just walked in by using the default Windows password.
The real criminals are the incompetent military heads who allow monkeys to be charge of I.T. security.