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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."
He did the crime, so he should pay the time.
I don't care if he goes to prison in the US or in the UK, but he shouldn't be free. The fact is though, that he committed the crime against US property.
Gone!
Wow, you are an idiot.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
He faces up to 70 years if convicted on all counts and serves the maximum time consecutively.
More likely he will be sentenced to the minimum to be served concurrently, which will work out to 5-10 years in a minimum security prison with time off for good behavior and the possibility of parole. And, that is assuming he gets prison time and not years of probation.
And, really, if he couldn't do the time, he should not have done the crime. It is as simple as that. No one made him break the law, he decided to do that on his own.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Ah, yes. Tell ya what, why don't you give me your address, and I'll come by and "do you a favour". I'll break a window, climb in, piss all over your furniture, and leave a note saying:
"By the way, your windows are the weak spot".
Does that sound like a fun time to you? :)
Man, your house must be a FORTRESS ....
"Umm no, that's not the meaning of what you wrote."
Umm, YES IT IS.
"You're free to interpret your own sentence"
Exactly as it was written. That you're too stupid (or too bad with English, as your incoherent last sentence proves) to understand it isn't my problem.
You're wrong. I find it humorous that you think you can tell me the meaning of what I wrote when you can't even consistently construct a coherent sentence, and by humorous I mean moronic.
FYI,I am NOT being an idiot. And comparing rape,which there is NEVER an excuse for,to an unsecured government network,shows which one of us is being an idiot.
We are talking about networks that the US taxpayer has paid untold millions,possibly billions for,and which is the target of some SERIOUS bad guys. North Korea,Chinese Intelligence,Iran,etc. Do you honestly think that if ET boy hadn't come along that all those bad guys wouldn't have ever tried "administrator:password"? We could be looking at SERIOUS damage if one of those bad boys got in. And frankly now that we know how sh*tty their security policies are I really wouldn't doubt that they have.
So I repeat: give ET boy a freakin' medal for bringing this to light,followed by firing whatever idiot thought "administrator:password" was an acceptable login for government networks. Because if it wasn't for ET boy bringing this to light there is no telling how long we would have set there with our networks open to anybody over the age of 10.And we both know they are going after this guy so hard because he made the government look like a bunch of hicks with admins from Best Buy. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
He broke the law in the US which and as such our country should have jurisdiction over the case. If he had broken into servers in the EU, then the European courts should have handled it.
Just because what he claims to have been looking for was so nutty doesn't mean that it really was what he was looking for and that he didn't conceivably come in contact with other sensitive information.
To suggest that this is less serious then theft is absolutely absurd. 5-10 years seems reasonable for a crime of this severity. And that's assuming that he doesn't have the sense to plea bargain for a better sentence. With good behavior, he'd probably be out in like 3-7 years or so.