Gary McKinnon is a British hacker which has just lost his case and is going to be extraded to the USA, accused of hacking some supposedly important computers in the states.
If i was british i would be ashamed to extrade a citizen to a country which has still death penalty.
PS: I am not a hacker, but i want anyway to express some sort of solidarity
I do not think you have to worry about him getting the death penalty for this. He probably will not even get life in prison … though he desires at least that if he is found guilty. >:(
Yeah,send him to guantanamo bay,without trial. :
I’m a UK citizen,and the government here allow real terrorists to walk the streets,because they daren’t deport them, in case they are tortured or excecuted on their return.Ok this guy has done wrong,he does not deserve,and will not get the death penalty. This UK government has pressured,and won the release of people in Guntanamo,so they will hardly let this guy rot in jail forever, he’s not bad,just silly.
"I'm extremely sorry I did it, but I think the reaction is completely overstated. I should face a penalty in Britain and I'd gladly do my time here," he said.“To go from, you know, perhaps a year or two in a British jail to 60 years in an American prison is ridiculous.”
A statement by solicitors for Mr McKinnon, who was not at the Lords to hear the judgement, said their client was “neither a terrorist nor a terrorist sympathiser”.
"His case could have been properly dealt with by our own prosecuting authorities. We believe that the British government declined to prosecute him to enable the US government to make an example of him.
"American officials involved in this case have stated that they want to see him ‘fry’.
“The consequences he faces if extradited are both disproportionate and intolerable.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7533916.stm
I don’t beleive the punishment in the US would fit the crime.
You really need a clue what will happen next ? I don’t believe you guys need it, but anyway… one more FBI employee, nothing else! He’ll be offered to work for FBI so he can do some damage to someone else except USA. “…If you do that to someone else, then it’s fine…”
When are we going to punish the lawbreakers?
Why are they the poor persecuted people?
If you do the crime, then be prepared to do the time.
If I killed a dozen innocent people or so, then I’d be prepared to do 60 years in prison. For hacking a few computers and posting a few anti-war diatribes on the screen, 60 years seems a teeny bit excessive.
Gary McKinnon won’t get a job with the FBI: he wasn’t that good a hacker.
'Bumbling nerd'The charges against Mr McKinnon are extensive.
The US government alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, the 40-year-old computer enthusiast from north London hacked into dozens of US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense computers, as well as 16 Nasa computers.
It says his hacking caused some $700,000 dollars damage to government systems.
What’s more, they allege that Mr McKinnon altered and deleted files at a US Naval Air Station not long after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and that the attack rendered critical systems inoperable.
The US government also says Mr McKinnon once took down an entire network of 2,000 US Army computers. His goal, they claim, was to access classified information.
In July 2005, Mark Summers, another official representing the US government, told a London court that Mr McKinnon’s hacking was “intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation and coercion”.
Mr McKinnon’s supporters point out that these charges have never been put before a court. Instead the US government voiced them unopposed as it sought his extradition.
For his part Gary McKinnon, or Solo as he was known online, paints a very different picture of himself, and his motivation. In a BBC interview in 2005, Mr McKinnon said that he was not a malicious hacker bent on bringing down US military systems, but rather more of a “bumbling computer nerd”.
He said he’s no web vandal, or virus writer, and that he never acted with malicious intent.
But he did admit that he hacked into dozens of US government computer systems. In fact, he calmly detailed just how easy it was to access extremely sensitive information in those systems.
“I found out that the US military use Windows,” said Mr McKinnon in that BBC interview. “And having realised this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn’t secured it properly.”
Using commercially available software, Mr McKinnon probed dozens of US military and government networks. He found many machines without adequate password or firewall protection. So, he simply hacked into them.
Hi malware fighters,
The man is being set before us as an example, and he was not a very good hacker for that, else no one had found out about him. The “powers that be” manage the “sheople” through fear, and this seems to work all the time.
Malware has caused many times the damage to their systems than they accused the man in question of, but they won’t admit that.
Then again I think we won’t hear about this man Gary for over half a century I guess, sad but true,
polonus
It is only right that friendly nations should co-operate to send their nationals abroad for trial if they have committed a serious crime in a foreign country. But transferring one's citizens to a foreign jurisdiction should never be done casually. And the merit of the arguments put forward by the foreign state needs to be rigorously tested. The case of Gary McKinnon, who is due to be extradited to the US, accused of hacking into the Pentagon from his home in north London, raises serious doubts about whether those requirements have been satisfied in this instance.Mr McKinnon could easily be tried and sentenced here in Britain. The unpalatable impression is thus of an American administration humiliated by the ease with which Mr McKinnon circumnavigated its security systems and determined to make an example of him.
But that takes this extradition request out of the purview of the law and into the realm of politics. An attempt by a foreign state to make a scapegoat out of a British national is not something our courts should be meekly going along with.
My italics. >:(
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-hacked-off-883273.html
It’s funny though how cyber criminals often get higher sentences than real criminals that actually hurt other ppl.
You can fix bits and bytes but you cannot ever restore a human life or someone’s traumatic experience…