Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA.
The US wants to try Gary McKinnon for what it calls the biggest military computer hack of all time.
[At first McKinnon faced 6 months of community service, but now, after rewritten US cyber crimes laws, he now faces 60 years imprisonment in a maximum security facility.]
[British] home secretary, Alan Johnson, pledged [yesterday] to examine new medical evidence in the case of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon "very carefully" before approving his extradition to the US on charges of breaking into the Pentagon's military networks.
The 43-year-old, from Wood Green, north London, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and says his hacking was aimed at nothing more than searching for reports of UFO sightings. His supporters fear his health would suffer in a maximum security jail in the US. -- The Guardian
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Interviewer: What do you think is a suitable punishment for someone that did what you did?
McKinnon: Well, firstly, because of what I was looking for, I think I was morally correct, even though I regret it now. I think that free energy technology should be publicly available.
Interviewer: Did you find what you were looking for?
McKinnon: Yeah.
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