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America Versus the UFO Hacker

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-promises dept.

Rob writes "Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's syndrome, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks, has one last chance to avoid extradition from the UK to the US to face charges of hacking into NASA and Pentagon computers in search of information on UFOs. Will the new UK government keep its word and help him avoid a savage punishment? The New Statesman has a survey of the history and McKinnon's prospects."

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  1. dude looks like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dude looks like an alien himself...

  2. He wnats to know.. by MaerD · · Score: 1, Funny

    He wnats the info because he's an alien trying to catch a ride home. I mean seriously, just look at the picture.. He's totally a grey in disguise!

    More seriously, why not work out a deal where he won't be stuffed in supermax?

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    I put on my robe and wizard hat..
  3. Savage punishment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will the new UK government keep its word and help him avoid a savage punishment?

    But the UK government is punishing Savage by banning him from entering the country.

  4. NASA and the Pentagon?!? by wbav · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows it is the NSA that keeps that data. Just ask your friendly local NSA operative, is there alien life. I always get, "We decline to comment on that subject at this time. All hail Kang."

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    1. Re:NASA and the Pentagon?!? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

  5. "UFO Hacker" by uofitorn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't Roland Emmerich already demonstrate in the 1996 US documentary Independence Day that UFO's can successfully be hacked by introducing a computer virus into the mothership?

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    1. Re:"UFO Hacker" by DriedClexler · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, he proved that Apple products are so freakishly different that if an advanced alien computer tried to interface with one, it will blow up in frustration.

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      Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
  6. Re:Aliens! by Tekfactory · · Score: 4, Funny

    New Mexico has an Alien problem, Arizona will profile and interrogate any little green men, or Grays they find wandering around, and believe to be in the country illegally.

  7. Re:Aliens! by flaming+error · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure Arizona thought this through - the little buggers are expensive to deport.

  8. Re:Aliens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why deport them? They taste like chicken.

  9. Let Me Correctly State The Hacked Operating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    system. For the nth time:

    WINDOZE.

    Technical note: In order for Microslop
    applications to work for ANYONE, they must be HACKED !

    Yours in Tashkent,
    Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

     

  10. Re:Aliens! by blair1q · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's funny. That's just what they said about you.

  11. Re:Aliens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We're at war! He's a terrist! We got nucular weapons in thar! Be afraid! Damnit!

  12. Re:That always makes me suspicious by gmhowell · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should get your money back from your "psychiatrist". And I put that in quotes because psychiatrists are pretty much drug dealing mental hacks that have about as much business being called a doctor as a naturopath does.

    Back in the closet with you Tom Cruise!

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  13. Re:Aliens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought the norm was to prosecute, send to prison, then hire them as a security expert.