UK Judge Grants Extradition Review To Cracker Gary McKinnon

JobsEnding writes with this quote from IBTimes: "A British court ruled on Friday that a man who hacked into US military computers will be given permission for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States. Hacker Gary McKinnon, 42, who had been diagnosed recently with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, has admitted hacking into the military computers. His lawyers had said McKinnon was at risk of suicide if he were extradited." We discussed the granting of McKinnon's extradition in 2006 when it was first granted, as well as a profile of the man more recently.

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At Risk of Suicide

[handy_vandal]

I suppose we're all at risk of "suicide", if we piss off the wrong people ....

Cracker Gary McKinnon

[mazarin5]

"UK Judge Grants Extradition Review To Caucasian Gary McKinnon" would be a less offensive headline.

Re:Cracker Gary McKinnon

[Nimey]

And you'd never see a headline like "UK Judge Grants Extradition Review to Nigger Gary McKinnon".

There's no call to use racial bigotry here.

*puts on tinfoil hat*

[poity]

Looks like MI6 doesn't want to lose one of their best guys.

Re:Asperger's syndrome

[Anonymous Coward]

Your POINTS are GOOD enough that YOU DON'T have to CAPITALIZE random WORDS.

Re:Hacker vs Cracker

[religious freak]

Agreed. Plus cracker is just stupid. If we're going to have a name for malicious computer folks, I think black hat is about a billion times cooler.