NASA hacker will be extradited to the US
By Andrew Redfern @ 30th July 2008 5:46 pm
UK Hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal against his extradition to the United States to face charges of “significantly damaging national security”.
Lawyers for Mr McKinnon have said they will appeal to the European Court of Hum Rights claiming that the charges he face are disproportionate to his crime they say “Gary McKinnon is 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”. Glasgow born McKinnon admits hacking into NASA’s computers not long after September 11th 2001. He told the Reuters news agency in 2006 that he was just a computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens really existed and became obsessed with trawling large military networks for proof.
According to US officials he altered and deleted files at a naval air station causing vital systems to fail. This, according to US claims, caused the entire U.S. Army’s Military District of Washington network of more than 2,000 computers to be shut down for 24 hours. He face 70 years in jail and a fine of over £1 million.
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