UK prime minister on Gary McKinnon case
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- UK prime minister Gordon Brown has spoken on the future of Gary McKinnon, facing extradition to the US on alleged hacking charges.
“Will the prime minister ensure that extradition arrangements are changed so that UK citizens such as… Gary McKinnon, are not routinely extradited, despite having Asperger’s syndrome?” – asked David Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield, Southgate, uring prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons, says ZDNet UK.
McKinnon is one of Burrowes’s constituents, says the story.
What did Brown have to say?
Britain and the US are, “signatories to the Council of Europe convention on the transfer of sentenced persons, which enables a person found guilty in the United States of America to serve their sentence in the UK,” the story has him answering”.
McKinnnon is alleged to have years ago hacked 97 US military systems from his bedroom in North London, “crashing the US Army’s Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours,” said The Times Online.
He lost his House of Lords appeal against the extradition last month, but appealed to the European court of human rights, which granted the extension.
Dubbed “the world’s most dangerous hacker” by the US, McKinnon says when he hacked the US computers, he waslooking for evidence of a UFO cover-up.
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ZDNet UK – PM comment boosts McKinnon’s UK-sentence hopes, November 20, 2008
The Times Online -Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker, loses appeal over US extradition, July 30, 2008
court of human rights – Gary McKinnon faces extradition to US, July 30, 2008
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
and he gave the PROOF to me
come get me befor ehte aliens do
HURRY
November 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Ive seen the doc about this guy he was purely curious and never did any actual damage their claiming. This is laughable at every angle. Not only did he manage to get remote access, he found his way to classfied photos but even then he was using a shitty modem and never managed to download any of the complete pictures. This entire case is a joke. The US govt is embarrassed someone got onto their systems so easily (dont forget this was a while ago not recently).
November 24th, 2008 at 2:10 am
either way you look at it I always believe that if you do the crime you should do the time.
however there is no reason the US couldn’t allow him to do the time in the UK.
also they could just put him under house arrest and have his Internet use monitored so he won’t hack again.
sounds fair to me.
November 24th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
In an interview he was also telling that many times when he was inside a system he could see people for eg Germany also log in. So he wasn’t alone, just ‘unlucky’ to get caught. I believe he just scanned for usernames with blank pw, i could be wrong.