It’s a pity (but obvious) that Gary McKinnon lost his extradition case. Sure he broke the law blah blah blah, anyone who can show up such gross stupidity that appears to exist in the US DOD (or any such organisations for that matter) is a top man in my book!
For those not familiar with the case, McKinnon launched the “biggest military computer hack of all time” on U.S. government computer networks when he “hacked” into Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems. But what’s interesting is that he hacked into these systems through computers with administrator status which had no passwords!! Such utter incompetence deserves to be exploited. The US Government should be thanking him for highlighting the massive holes in their security and they should also be counting their blessings that he wasn’t a malicious attacker!
The decision to extradite him now rests with the British Home Secretary who’ll probably just do what Tony tells him.
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