The chances of him getting 70 years is probably pretty slim. It will just be the maximum possible sentence.
Poll: Should Gary McKinnon be extradited to the US for hacking?
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The chances of him getting 70 years is probably pretty slim. It will just be the maximum possible sentence.
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No need to waste time and money on a trial then; RDM has passed judgement.
Just ship him off to Guantánamo Bay then, just as the Americans have done with so many other people.
Alternatively, Mr Sarcasm, it is because he has admitted doing it. But hey lets not let the truth get in the way of yet another cheap shot. God you are pathetic at times.
Yes because that happens so often with high profile extradition cases...
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Gary McKinnon's final appeal against extradition to the USA for breaching the security of 97 computers allegedly controlled by the US Department of Defence, the US Navy & NASA will be heard today.
He is accused of being a terrorist, conducting "the biggest military computer hack of all time" and causing damage to the tune of $800k; he faces up to 70 years in jail and some deranged US officials have even called for the death penalty.
Gary who has Asperger's Syndrome claims that he was searching for concealed evidence of UFOs and the UK Government have refused to try him here.
He is accused of being a terrorist, conducting "the biggest military computer hack of all time" and causing damage to the tune of $800k; he faces up to 70 years in jail and some deranged US officials have even called for the death penalty.
Gary who has Asperger's Syndrome claims that he was searching for concealed evidence of UFOs and the UK Government have refused to try him here.
"Kid"? He's 43 years old!
And I don't know why everyone keeps harping on about the fact that he's got Asperger's, as if that makes any difference to anything. It doesn't impair his moral judgement, and it certainly doesn't place him above the law. I've got Asperger's, and I don't use it as an excuse whenever I do something wrong. It's completely irrelevant to the case.
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Death penalty for hacking?
Come on U.S, how ***** up is that?
Come on U.S, how ***** up is that?
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I wonder if they've changed those default passwords yet? What were those IP addresses again?
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Keep him here, let him get two kills under his belt and promote him to 00 status
The yanks only want to extradite him so they can clone him and or use him to hack everywhere else for them.
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The yanks only want to extradite him so they can clone him and or use him to hack everywhere else for them.
/foilhat
He's not being threatened with the death penalty. Or Guantanamo Bay. Or any other stupid idea.
Fantastic news, it's about ****** time. The irony is that if he'd pleaded guilty in the first place, he would have received a token sentence and probably been out by now! But no, he tried to lie his way out of it by denying the charges. n00b.
Right decision.
As far as I am aware they have to come and get him. He would be arrested here and handed over to US authorities who would then transport him to the US.
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. . . says a man who claims to suffer from it and yet appears to know nothing about it.
However, on hearing the news that Gary McKinnon could be sentenced to up to 70 years in a US jail for embarrassing their incompetent Government Sys Admins, he does go on to gloat:
So, perhaps poor Evangelion does genuinely lack inborn social skills, moral judgement and empathy and does have severe trouble with social situations
Incidentally Evangelion sweetie, if you bother to check the facts you will discover that Gary McKinnon has never denied hacking into some 70 American Government systems, he just denies that it was malicious or that he caused damage costing $800,000.
The US Government had to assert that some sort of damage was caused in order to be able to request his extradition. The money involved was probably to do with having to pay to get their clearly incompetent and lazy Sys Admins given some basic training and conducting an audit to discover how many other people had been wandering contentedly about their super secret systems.
To the rest of you (who don't suffer Asperger's); you might like to read "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll who was asked to resolve a 75 cents system usage accounting error at a California University way back in the '80s, only to discover that it was due to a team of German hackers who were accessing US Government computers and flogging secrets to the KGB. It took Stoll a very, very long time to get the FBI, CIA or NSA even vaguely interested. An excellent read!
American Government IT Security appears not to have learnt much since then and some rednecks may be a wee bit embarrassed and keen to have a lynching