Gary McKinnon allegedly hacked into 100 US government computers during 2001 and 2002, looking for evidence that the government was hiding information regarding UFO’s.
Instead of thanking McKinnon for exposing the absurd vulnerabilities of the US government’s database, the government has spent the past seven years trying to extradite him from the UK for the purposes of trying him as a criminal in the US.
Apparently, the government had failed to employ firewalls on its computer systems and McKinnon, with a little skill, was able to open computer files that he thought would reveal the government’s knowledge regarding UFO’s.
The US government claims that McKinnon did $1 Million dollars worth of damage to the computer systems but fails to explain how that is possible.
Characterizing McKinnon’s actions as the greatest military computer hack of all time, apparently to cover-up or mitigate the government’s own negligence, the efforts to extradite him have been considerable.
Exhausting all appeals regarding jurisdiction, McKinnon is now likely to be transported to the US to face trial despite the fact that he suffers from a permanent disability.
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