WHat's happened to the Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon?

[Hugo-Johnson]

Anyone know?

[jno]

David Cameron when leader of the opposition was all in favour of blocking his extradition to the USA.

Now he's prime minister, what do you know, he seems to have changed his tune.

http://www.mirror.co....nnon-115875-22296187/

[Buenchico]

Jno's link is dated 30th May. On 15th June a Parliamentary answer stated ". . the Government have agreed to look afresh at whether new evidence demonstrates that extradition would breach Mr McKinnon's human rights. To that end, we are considering further representations which Mr McKinnon's solicitors submitted to us on 8 June".

http://freegary.org.uk/

Chris

[ELVIS68]

Can`t they use him to hack into Raoul Moats mobile facebook account and pinpoint where he is?

[jno]

ah, thanks for that, Chris; I am out of date... possibly. Let's see what happens.

[rov1200]

Strange the trouble in trying to get him extradited where there is no clamour from the human rights organisations to stop it.

Now that the US has asked Britain for that terrorist who belonged to Al Qaeda to be extradited just wait for the human rights mob to try to stop it.

[jake-the-peg]

I still don't see why everybody thinks he shouldn't be extradited.

If he'd been caught at the dead of night in an office building holding a torch rifling through a filing cabinet he'd have precious few supporters.

I feel people have an unduely leniant attitude towards computer crime

[zita-green]

They should give him a job at GCHQ with all his skills.

[jno]

Jake, I'm guessing because there's widespread distrust of the US legal system (especially in cases where the accused may have some sort of mental disability). Also, the perception that though he may have got in and wandered around he didn't take or damage anything.

Note that the freegary website isn't demanding he be exonerated, just that he be tried in the UK. The question of jurisdiction over things dealing with a world-wide web is a tricky one, but it does seem he was sitting at a desk in Britain when he did whatever he did; so that's not an unreasonable demand.