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In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition

Posted by kdawson on from the holding-out-for-regime-change dept.

Stoobalou writes "Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has called on the newly elected British government to put its money where its mouth is and tear up his extradition order. US prosecutors have been trying to get McKinnon before a New Jersey court for seven years after they caught him hacking into US military and NASA computers looking for evidence of UFOs. David Cameron, the newly elected prime minister, and Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, had both voiced their support for McKinnon's campaign against extradition. Other ministers in the coalition government had branded the extradition unjust. Clegg had even joined McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, on a protest march."

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  1. But now by MichaelSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    David Cameron: Gary who?

    Nick Clegg: Um, yeah well, nice bloke that Barack Obama, isn't he?

    (thats my guess anyway).

    Maybe crimes comitted in the UK should be prosecuted there as well. Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK (not that far fetched in this day and age) should he be tried in the UK?

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    1. Re:But now by Kvasio · · Score: 0, Troll

      so .... you really say that thousands of American soldiers should be tried in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and many other places? It is hard to argue with that they fired there quite a lot of ammo.

      Oh, I see. You say that was war. However, in the eyes of people of Iraq, Afghanistan and so on - they were terrorists.

    2. Re:But now by Thanshin · · Score: 1, Troll

      He illegaly gained access to servers in the US, so he commited the crime in the US and should be prosecuted there.

      Who decided he illegaly gaines access? The US?

      Now imagine you're just browsing and North Korea decides you were illegally accessing their servers. Should you be sent there? Or maybe it'd be more reasonable that the north korean government informs yours of what they see as a crime and let your own law decide whether you're a criminal or not.

  2. hackingis very interesting concept by vaporkinginc · · Score: 0, Troll

    hacking how to make it really is very interesting.

  3. But it's not two way! by Bozovision · · Score: 0, Troll

    US citizens have been guilty of murder in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet we do not see them on trial there. Why not?

    The lesson I take from this is that it's not a rule that a crime is tried in the place in which it was committed.