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A UFO enthusiast accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" lost his appeal to the Law Lords against extradition to the United States.
Gary McKinnon, an unemployed 42-year-old, faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the US of sabotaging vital defence systems.
The House of Lords rejected a plea by McKinnon, who was never charged in Britain after admitting accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers, to quash an extradition request granted to the US authorities in 2006.
Lawyers for McKinnon, from Enfield, north London, pointed out that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect - despite his insistence that he accessed Pentagon computers looking for information about UFOs.
From the bedroom of his girlfriend's aunt's house in north London, he hacked into 97 American military computers at the Pentagon and Nasa between 2001 and 2002.
McKinnon never denied that he wandered around the computer networks of a wide number of US military institutions.
But he has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he managed to get into the networks only because of lax security.
I can't really help admiring someone like that, cos my computer skills are rubbish. Plus he made the American military look silly and that's always a bonus.
Gary McKinnon, an unemployed 42-year-old, faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the US of sabotaging vital defence systems.
The House of Lords rejected a plea by McKinnon, who was never charged in Britain after admitting accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers, to quash an extradition request granted to the US authorities in 2006.
Lawyers for McKinnon, from Enfield, north London, pointed out that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect - despite his insistence that he accessed Pentagon computers looking for information about UFOs.
From the bedroom of his girlfriend's aunt's house in north London, he hacked into 97 American military computers at the Pentagon and Nasa between 2001 and 2002.
McKinnon never denied that he wandered around the computer networks of a wide number of US military institutions.
But he has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he managed to get into the networks only because of lax security.
I can't really help admiring someone like that, cos my computer skills are rubbish. Plus he made the American military look silly and that's always a bonus.
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Re: Hacker
You'd think the US government would be grateful that he showed them how bad their system was, before the likes of Bin Liner decided to hack it instead.
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