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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ Phil Da Lick! on Saturday 01 August 2009 16:34 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> ____/ Ramon F Herrera on Friday 31 July 2009 15:39 : \____
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>>>>> # Gary McKinnon admits intentionally gaining access to government
>>>>> systems
>>>>> # Briton accused of carrying out biggest ever U.S. military computer
>>>>> hacking
>>>>> # He says he was researching whether U.S. was covering up existence of
>>>>> UFOs
>>>>>
>>>>> "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The Briton accused of hacking into U.S.
>>>>> government computers on Friday lost his court appeal to have his case
>>>>> heard in Britain, his legal team said.
>>>>>
>>>>> " The decision means Gary McKinnon faces extradition to the United
>>>>> States, where he is wanted for allegedly hacking into computers at the
>>>>> Pentagon and NASA.
>>>>>
>>>>> His mother, Janis Sharp, promised to appeal.
>>>>>
>>>>> McKinnon, who has admitted breaking the law and intentionally gaining
>>>>> unauthorized access to computer systems, wanted to be tried in Britain
>>>>> rather than the United States."
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/31/british.hacker.mckinnon/
>>>>
>>>> This whole case has developed into a farce that only embarrasses the
>>>> American Secret Services.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, he committed a crime and deserves to pay but painting him as some
>>> kind of terrorist anti christ who needs to spend the rest of his life in
>>> jail is excessive. IMO he should be tried in the UK. If every computer
>>> crime resulted in the perpetrators being extradited to the country the
>>> target system was in we'd have a meltdown of all the airports.
>>
>> He only played, AFAIK. He didn't crack it for profit or for malicious
>> reasons.
>
> Didn't he also INFORM them of the security holes?
> or was that someone else?
I think not. I never heard of such a thing.
Maybe they noticed him when he shuffled and played with the wallpapers. Perhaps
he /wanted/ to be noticed and for the infiltration to come to their awareness.
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