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Gary McKinnon is no enemy of the state
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PingusPeriratus
Tue Jun 05 2012, 01:39AM
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Theresa May should take the chance to halt Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US once and for all

A final decision on whether computer hacker Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to the United States is now imminent. Behind the scenes, a battle is apparently under way between politicians and officials over what the outcome should be. There may be much else to occupy the government at the moment, but it is vital that this matter of principle is not sidelined.More than a decade has passed since a self-styled computer nerd, working out of a bedroom in north London, started trawling through the computer systems of Nasa and the US defence department in search of information about UFOs. He left behind some rude messages about the systems' sloppy security and was arrested by British police. In all that time, no evidence has been advanced by the US prosecuting authorities that any harm – beyond the cost of installing better computer security – has resulted from McKinnon's activities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/04/gary-mckinnon-extradition
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revrob
Tue Jun 05 2012, 07:12AM

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With states around the globe massively implicated in cyber-warfare (international crime), breaking their own anti-hacking laws routinely, and usually without even a figleaf of appropriate legal authorisation, does anyone REALLY think that hackers like Gary McKinnon who have managed to penetrate the Pentagon's cyber defences, are going to be left at liberty?

People like McKinnon know where the cyber-bodies are buried. The state will take "appropriate" action.

Just retell the story, only for "state" read Mafia gang. Things become a lot clearer.

When "sovereign" states become involved in international telecommunications/computer crime (to add to their other more old fashioned ones like bribery, corruption, and theft), then they will behave like desperate criminals do to avoid discovery.

Hence the McKinnon, the Bradley Manning and the Assange trials, And why they are so hard on teenage hackers, and so soft on large corporations.
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pseudopwr
Thu Jun 07 2012, 08:33PM
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