Posted on 04/02/2009 11:58:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono
As protesters again took to the streets of London today in connection with the G20 summit of world leaders, a much smaller rally in support of British hacker Gary McKinnon took place outside the U.S. embassy in the city. McKinnon, a 43-year-old London resident, was indicted on hacking charges in November 2002 in a U.S. District Court in Virginia, after he admittedly broke into computers belonging to the U.S. military and NASA. He was arrested by London police four years ago and has lost numerous efforts to block his extradition since then. But he is drawing increasing looking for evidence of UFOs and not trying to cause any damage to the systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Lawd. I wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alley.
For those who don’t know, Garry McKinnon is being busted for hacking into (but not damaging) several extremely sensitive U.S. military information systems. He claims to have found evidence that the U.S. government possesses a technologically-advanced armed space force/space navy that has been kept secret from the general public. Many people suspect that he is being targeted by the U.S. government precisely because he has revealed the existence of these extraterrestrial forces to the world.
He looks like a cross between Richard Ramirez(the night stalker) and Jeffery Dahmer.
Screw him, and screw Mayor Boris Johnson, who wrote Obama a snide letter lobbying for dropping the case. He deserves some jail time, and hopefully he’ll get it.
Boris Johnson was just doing the job that the leaders in the national government should be doing, protecting their fellow citizen from an unjust foreign prosecution where the penalty is far and beyond anything he would serve in Britain...
I think he just found someone’s cached Stargate episodes...
You think it’s unjust for the US to prosecute hackers who illegally break in and damage defense networks?
IF
it were a matter about our CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL SECURITY
I’d agree with you.
Given that it’s about protecting the UNCONSTITUTIONAL OLIGARCHY PROTECTING THEIR SUPER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES with which they are determined to
CONTINUE
destroying our Constitution [the shreds remaining]
as well as the fabric, sovereignty, economy, health, existence of our Republic
in favor of the global tyrannical government
and smashing therefore someone who dared to leak some of their highly sensitive stuff . . .
I disagree.
It is when he faces 70 years in Jail, which is a lot longer than most multiple rapists would spend in jail, considering the harm caused, which essentially amounts to forcing the DoD to spend more money tightening up security so that amateur hackers with access to the internet cannot access supposedly secure networks....
Correct me if I’m wrong here, but 70 years is the maximum he could receive under the hacking and espionage laws on the table. I don’t think its the least bit realistic to think he’ll get that many years, or to be against extradition simply because there’s the potential for some hard time.
So you think its Unconstitutional for the Defense Dept, the Navy, and the Air Force to have computer networks?
>>>He claims to have found evidence that the U.S. government possesses a technologically-advanced armed space force/space navy that has been kept secret from the general public.
And he is probably correct. There is more flying around up there then just the shuttle.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/030606p1.xml
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