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Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US

Vainglorious Coward writes "When UK hacker and Asperger's sufferer Gray McKinnon lost the judicial review of his case it seemed likely that he would be extradited to the US to face charges of hacking almost a hundred systems causing $700,000 worth of damage. Today the UK home secretary rejected his last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition adding that 'his extradition to the United States must proceed forthwith.' McKinnon's relatives are expressing concerns for his health, with his lawyer going so far as to claim that extradition would make the 43-year-old's death 'virtually certain.'"

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  1. Re:Good grief! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you go to the Project Camelot site, McKinnon confesses to the entire thing and tells exactly how he did it in a video interview. Asperger's Syndrome should not even matter when he confessed in a public forum. Of course, someone made the whole story up, because Project Camelot is government/CIA/etc. misinformation. The interesting part is that it looks a lot like MI5 or MI6, whichever is responsible, is working in concert with US intelligence on this one.

    If one looks into the matter, it appears a lot of the governments of the developed world contribute resources to these misinformation campaigns. I seriously doubt Grays are running around grabbing people, but something is going on, if all the governments are spending that kind of money on such huge intelligence operations. A lot of the UFO community is supported the same way, as far as I can tell. What could these governments possibly be hiding to spend that kind of time and use those huge amounts of resources on misinformation?

    The author Victor Marchetti who wrote _The_CIA_and_the_Cult_of_Intelligence_, and actually was CIA, said that the people inside the CIA did not make fun of aliens with one another but were serious and reverent about the subject. What that means, I do not know, but the McKinnon thing is certainly interesting. McKinnon claims to have gotten information about the US secret space fleet in the video, and he claims that is what upsets the US government so much. The guy just sits drinking a pint of beer and telling about how he compromised the mysteries of the US space fleet.

  2. Re:Hypocrisy by FragHARD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because 0bama want to do something....before it's too late...We have to do something !!! Think of the children!!!!

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    FragHARD or don't frag at all