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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.'"
Let's face it, he's a nerd / geek, so expendable as there are no votes in it for this government that likes to extradite TO the USA, but cannot get any wanted terrorist suspects extradited FROM the USA. That's the beauty of the extradition treaty THIS corrupt British government has, it's one way, they are a spineless government who rolls over for anyone these days, not giving a crap bout their own. The Americans never got the extradition treaty through their government machinery, they are laughing.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
...and Asperger's sufferer...
This has NOTHING to do with this issue.
This has nothing to do with the the issue whatsoever. The problem we have here is an extradiction treaty that is some what biased in the favour of the US that Tony Blair signed up to along with Bush at his private ranch in Texas IN PRIVATE as the IRAQ WAR inquiry is now following. Terror laws have been implented to erode every man, women and childrens' rights on this planet to live in peace. This guy was just a young enthusiastic individual IT guy interested in UFO's. All he wanted was to try and understand the TRUTH. It does not make him a terrorist, he had a thirst that needed quenching. Many scientists push the boundaries of convention to explore new worlds or organisms. It does not make this guy a terrorist, and in actual fact the NSA and DHS ought to be thankful he poked some holes in the systems. Now I could put up a few wargame "Real Time" Linux and BSD boxes to hack on a network, running other services, but $700,000.00 worth of damage is laughable beyond the extreme. I am taking he never pulled an rm-/rf *.* and obviously forensics have checked /var/logs have not been contaminated. Did these guys run ENCASE? If they did, any person working in intelligience knows Encase is not enough.
In my own words of the X-Files (2O*x+d4782)
Grid me.
All cows eat grass!
"In the UK we do at least give the majority of our prisoners the chance of rehabilitation."
Letting him go early (the idea of rehabilitation is nonsense) won't deter others. If this guy didn't want to go to prison he would have made the adult choice not to fuck with computers that belong to other people. Wreck him as an example to those who think they have a right to pwn any machine they can access.
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I don't understand why everyone's mad at the US.
The US is doing what their law says to do. They have an extradition treaty with the UK. Therefore, they requested extradition.
REQUESTED extradition. They didn't "demand" it. They didn't "order" the UK to. They didn't send in CIA commandos to kidnap the 43 year old hacker and bring him back on a C130 in the dead of night.
They asked.
The UK's response was, "Why sure, here you go! We don't want to prosecute this case here."
I cannot contemplate why the people from the UK who are angry at the US are angry at the US. It's YOUR country that's selling out a citizen of your country. It's YOUR country that, instead of saying "No, US. We're going to follow our extradition treaty and elect to prosecute here" that handed this man over.
Your country has the ability to prosecute him in the UK. They can do it. They chose not to. Don't blame my country for requesting extradition of a criminal. If your countryman was really an innocent aspie, your country should stand up for him.
Jeeze. Grow a pair. Everyone bitches about the US , all the time, and sure, we have some problems here.. but instead of whining about OUR problems, perhaps you should ask your OWN GOVERNMENT why they're selling out their citizens.
Let us in the States try to make our country better. You work on your own damn country.. cause it's no land of plenty.
I assure you of this, though. If the situation was reversed.. THIS country, the US, wouldn't be so quick to sell out its citizens.