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UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told

Posted by timothy on from the aerosolized-weapons-grade-asperger's dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ryan Cleary, the British teenager accused of launching DDoS attacks at the likes of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court heard [Saturday]."

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  1. Cleary also suffers from agoraphobia by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like the UK Government are going to help him with his fear of open spaces.

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    1. Re:Cleary also suffers from agoraphobia by Sulphur · · Score: 3, Funny

      Looks like the UK Government are going to help him with his fear of open spaces.

      Socialized medicine again?

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    2. Re:Cleary also suffers from agoraphobia by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually the whole anal fetish that springs up as soon as one is put behind bars is purely an American phenomenon.

      In the UK, it's generally instilled in public schools, yes?

  2. He lives in Essex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that punishment enough?

  3. Re:What a fool! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, maybe he thought it was an agency run by serious organized crime. :-)

    Well, thinking again about it, in that case it would have been an even more stupid action to DDoS it ...

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  4. Re:Serious Organized Crime Agency by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess they have another department for catching the humourus disoganised criminals

  5. Re:What a fool! by geoffrobinson · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not like it's the Very Serious Organised Crime Agency.

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  6. Re:So what? by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not really, he's a doctor, OTHER people are supposed to figure out what he wrote...

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  7. Re:old news by 1s44c · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you sure the UK doesn't extradite to countries that allow torture? There have been plenty of cases of them extraditing suspects to the US over the years.