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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Re:I remember this guy

[DaveV1.0]

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.