British NASA hacker to face U.S. trial

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Source: Yahoo News

LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against extradition to the United States, where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time".


Gary McKinnon was arrested in 2002 after U.S. prosecutors charged him with illegally accessing computers, including Pentagon, U.S. army, navy and NASA systems, and causing $700,000 worth of damage.

McKinnon told Reuters in 2006 he was just a computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens really existed and became obsessed with trawling large military networks for proof.

However, Britain's highest court, the House of Lords, ruled that the gravity of the alleged offences should not be understated and they would carry a maximum life sentence under English law.


Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080730/tpl-uk-britain-hacker-43a8d4f.html

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1. Knowing what he was after, I'm a littel curious as to what he found

and if that was ALL he dug up...