Comments on: Gary McKinnon awaits extradition to the US to face charges for “the biggest military hack of all time”

By: J

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:30:43 +0000

this guy “hacked” into the govt computers just like a thief “breaks and enters” an open door. He is not a high level hacker he used remote desktop to try to connect to computers with no administrator password. You would think that govt security would be a little higher than no password for admin accounts.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:24:20 +0000

“bought over to the US”? “bought”? Have you ever heard of the word “brought”? Doesn’t *anyone* in the United States speak English?

Anyway, I would say Microsoft are the guiltiest party, since they have, as per usual, left room for their software to be hacked. The U.S. armed forces must also bear some of the blame – anyone who deploys Microsoft products in an environment where security is an important consideration is really just asking for trouble.

By: AS

AS — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:24:36 +0000

Gary McKinnon is being railroaded by the US.

I read the prosecution has already said they want him ‘to fry,’ which is prejudicial and a perversion of justice.

Rule of US law is, “innocent until PROVED guilty.”

He seems to be being charged ‘ex post facto’. Which, in the US is illegal as a country with a ‘Bill of Rights’.

In fact, ‘ex post facto’ has been shot down before in the USA judicial system as unconstitutional.

I suggest the British Gov’ give him diplomatic immunity and employ him at the GHQ hacking into gov’ computer systems everywhere…and this time on a T1 line, or better yet the new 40 Gigabytes per second connection, demonstrated in Sweden.

He will not get a fair trial in the USA, he should seek a trial in a neutral nation.