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His case has captured the attention of celebrities , including Sting’s wife, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, who recorded the Crosby, Stills and Nash song “Chicago” to help fund McKinnon’s case. A group called Free Gary has sprung up in the UK, supporting McKinnon’s efforts to fight extradition to the U.S.
Will the real Gary McKinnon please stand up? Gary McKinnon, 42-year old British citizen, has many talents, not the least of which are genius level abilities to hack into virtually impenetrable U.S. government computers to search for evidence of extra terrestrial technology under the code name, “Solo.”
His family say he is a harmless computer genius who suffers from a form of autism. The U.S. government views him as a dangerous threat to national security.
Both descriptions of McKinnon may be the truth. The United States claims McKinnon perpetrated the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” U.S. officials claim McKinnon hacked into 97 computers of NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense and other military branches, soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The U.S. officials say that McKinnon caused untold damage to military computers, by deleting critical files, rendering scores of military computers inoperable for 24 hours during a critical time after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
McKinnon admitted to hacking into the computers, but claims he didn’t mean to cause any harm. He says he was searching for evidence of alien technology that could serve as the basis for a new environmentally friendly energy source. Specifically, McKinnon said he was searching for evidence that “secretive parts of the American government intelligence agencies did have access to crashed extra terrestrial technology.”
His mom, Janis Sharp is asking President Obama for his help in her son’s case saying, “I think Obama probably doesn’t know about it, and he’s got so many things to consider, but I’m really desperately trying to get through to Obama, because this is from the Bush era.”
McKinnon faces eight counts of computer fraud, which each carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
His supporters claim he is an eccentric UFO enthusiast, who did the U.S. a favor by exposing security flaws in military computer systems. Whatever the case may be, the U.S. is determined to see that McKinnon be held accountable for his crimes.
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Gary should be freed from American persecution – five British Home-Secretary’s have handled this case – It goes to show how far a Country will bend over and allow itself to be shafted by a SuperPower – allowing its citizen to suffer mental anguish when this could all have been settled with The US Justice Department carrying out a ‘debrief’ and finding out that Gary is of course – NOT A TERRORIST !
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To be fair, the computers he accessed had no security. No firewalls, no passwords set. So he didn’t technically “hack” anything. To describe thousands of machines with zero security on them even after 9/11 as “impenetrable” is over-egging the pudding a little bit.
Yes, he admits to gaining unauthorised access by using a well-known standard Windows exploit. But he didn’t delete anything other than his own traces, he didn’t shut anything down, and he didn’t cause a dollar of damage. This much has been tested in court and is a matter of public record.
What he did do was not a federal offence, and in the UK carries a maximum 6 months sentence. That is the gravity of what he did. So why is he being touted as a dangerous criminal, and why on god’s earth is he being extradited for crimes he didn’t commit, has never admitted, and for which not a shred of evidence exists?