Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to US on hacking charges

namealot · Oct 16, 2012

Not normally anything good to say about politicians but at least on this occasion they made one good descision. If they stop the one sided BS extradition treaty with the states might be one or two less water boarding trips available.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...om-extradition-to-US-on-hacking-charges.html#

RobM · Oct 16, 2012

Excellent news. Having a son with aspergers I can understand how he got obsessed and would not be able to cope in the US prison environment.

SF · Oct 16, 2012

He found some pretty decent UFO stuff whilst he was snooping around aswell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng7KFGqh8ao

boxerdog · Oct 16, 2012

I cant get my head around it, he broke into NASA and the Pentagon, he knew what he was doing and admits it, why has he not been sent? I see no reason why he shouldn't be sent to the US to face the consequences.
Sorry but I don't buy all the "oh but hes too ill" tripe

Retired_member41 · Oct 16, 2012

boxerdog said:
I cant get my head around it, he broke into NASA and the Pentagon, he knew what he was doing and admits it, why has he not been sent? I see no reason why he shouldn't be sent to the US to face the consequences.
Sorry but I don't buy all the "oh but hes too ill" tripe

Ok idiot was a bit harsh as I like your posts in the main, but come on.

boxerdog · Oct 16, 2012

Retired_member41 · Oct 16, 2012

His "illness" has been there all his life, he thinks different, he acts different, why on earth would a government subject one of their citizens to the likes of the US in these circumstances.

Ok if he had digressed from his search then yes he should be looked at more closely, but he followed a pattern of looking for strange goings on, so not a terrorist like the US would have treated him.

boxerdog · Oct 16, 2012

It was the biggest military computer hack of all time, you cant tell me he didn't know what he was doing was wrong for 13 months, and hacking 97 computers.

At the end of the day did he do something wrong and illegal and did he admit to it?....yes

I'm going to leave it there for this conversation as nothing will change my opinion (sorry if iv offended anyone)

scooter · Oct 16, 2012

What happens now? Is he tried within the UK?

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theonemanyuri · Oct 16, 2012

He clearly isn't a terrorist which in my mind would make it questionable whether he should of been extradited or not. When you take into consideration his Aspergers, that would then swing it for me to say he shouldn't be extradited. I agree with seemly, why effectively end his life putting him in a yank prison when his obvious skills could be put to better use strengthening their (and our) security systems...

accelerator · Oct 16, 2012

Yes, I would imagine that this chap would be quite useful to UK government computer security projects.

Rgds

tifosi · Oct 16, 2012

I can't understand where they've come up with the ~800k figure for 'damage' to their systems. Must have been a big mallet to stretch across the atlantic to destroy their servers. Systems would have been backed up, redundancies would have been in place. Nothing would have been lost. If the figure is the effective man-hours in shoring up their sytems - which were clearly inadequate against 1 person! - that's their expenses, not physical damage! The only thing damaged is their damn egos!

I'd invoice the buggers for the time I'd spent demonstrating their systems vulnerabilities and then expect a bloody good job offer.

This is just US bully-boy tactics. Instead of this being a lesson learned - there are sovereign states who really would have done some damage - they treat this as an 'example case' without really demonstrative just cause.

Years of arse licking by Blair and crew has left us in a situation of being in the US's back pocket - and as far as this bilateral extradition agreement goes it's massively one sided.

We shouldn't forget as well the guy in his 60s who is guilty of nothing more than entrapment and in now banged up in Texas at the us governments pleasure.