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Originally posted by Obsrvr
I am very puzzled by a country (the UK) that would not pull out all the stops, or simply say "FU" outright to a bully like the US, in response to this case and the extradition request. This man is a UK citizen. He does not have to set one foot outside of the UK if the UK says so. Why is the British government playing the lackey? Has it forgotten how to lead?
Britain, stand on your own. The rest of the world will respect you more if you thumb your nose at Uncle Sam and keep your man home. Throw him a parade. The queen should have him to dinner and knight him.
Obsrvr
[edit on 9/10/08 by Obsrvr]
By extradition and prosecution of this man, they corroborate his statements.
[edit on 9/10/08 by Obsrvr]
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
So if he didn't download any actual evidence perhaps you could explain why:-
1) Photo's and documentation downloaded were confiscated by the Police at the time of the arrest?
2) Why the Americans are so keen for this "evidence" NOT to be shown publicly in a British Court?
3) Why the same effort isn't being put into the extradition of the dangerous terrorist Abu Hamza?
4) Why there is a virtual news-blackout on the McKinnon story here in the UK?
I'm sure with your obvious great knowledge of Gary's case answering these four questions should prove quite easy for you!
Ross
[edit on 10-9-2008 by nomadrush]
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
So if he didn't download any actual evidence perhaps you could explain why:-
1) Photo's and documentation downloaded were confiscated by the Police at the time of the arrest?
2) Why the Americans are so keen for this "evidence" NOT to be shown publicly in a British Court?
3) Why the same effort isn't being put into the extradition of the dangerous terrorist Abu Hamza?
4) Why there is a virtual news-blackout on the McKinnon story here in the UK?
I'm sure with your obvious great knowledge of Gary's case answering these four questions should prove quite easy for you!
Ross
[edit on 10-9-2008 by nomadrush]
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
You obviously HAVE got the wrong end of the stick here, and I'm not being any more hostile than you are with your one-sided "I'm educated so I must be right" approach to this.
Gary admits he committed a "crime" but as the "crime" was committed in a house in North London, he should face trial here in the UK - simple fact of British legal practice.
The USA are forcing extradition in a way not seen before with other "criminals", again I refer to the terrorist Abu Hamza.
As a patriotic Brit, I am standing up for a UK citizen being hung out to dry by his government, and all I ask is that other patriotic Brits do the same.
If the guy is found guilty in a UK court he will serve his time. However it will be an open court-room with ALL evidence visible and a fair sentence rather than 70 years in a US prison!
Ross
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
OK rather than this hostility let's agree to differ and not ending up cussing each other over this. We have very different view points on this but the one thing we DO seem to agree on is that 70 years is stupidity!
So let's agree to differ on this one.
Ross
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
OK rather than this hostility let's agree to differ and not ending up cussing each other over this. We have very different view points on this but the one thing we DO seem to agree on is that 70 years is stupidity!
So let's agree to differ on this one.
Ross
Originally posted by ANoNyMiKE
Originally posted by nomadrush
reply to post by ANoNyMiKE
OK rather than this hostility let's agree to differ and not ending up cussing each other over this. We have very different view points on this but the one thing we DO seem to agree on is that 70 years is stupidity!
So let's agree to differ on this one.
Ross
No hard feelings
I do see how they are rationalizing it though. In total he accessed 97 computers and faces jail time plus 1.75 million in fines, that's $18,000 and a little under 9 months jail time per host. That's actually entirely within reason and much less than I would recommend trying to get someone for if they had breached security and gotten onto a client on a network I managed.
BUT
It doesn't stack like that. I mean if someone breached a network and then logged onto 10 thousand user accounts trying to find one with administrative rights (I've seen this), you wouldn't try and put them away for 7500 years. At some point it has to cut off and become like a package deal where if he says that he was behind all this it will condense into. There's no way this is on the same level as first degree murder and the courts know this. That's why I believe part of it is media sensationalizing it.
Originally posted by janeson
1. Well, they could be letting him talk to give him enough rope to hang himself or if he is lying and had accomplices or something of evidence regarding what he claimed then; the more he talks, the more they can gather a picture of him and whether he acted alone. Or maybe they are right maybe he isn't as stupid as he would have everyone believe.
It's blooming put me off going on their sites to view photos and I know nothing about hacking, surely to God someone would have been alerted if he had downloaded a program to hack? I'm on broadband and I couldn't download TIFFs fully - they time out! So what did he see that he almost got on a Dial-up line?
He got a program online? A hacking program? Don't governments employ bods to watch for anything like that?
So someone wasn't doing his or her job.and why aren't they being paraded out to show us all who the lazybones was who was sleeping on the job, surely a question McKinnon's team should ask? I'd like to see this person. Wouldn't you?
Like those strange men who dress up for war re-enactments, all very odd...but would you say they are mentally ill?
The Navy have always been up to their necks in this, They don't call them the 'Senior Service' for nothing.
When did the US turn into the schoolyard bully? Was it suddenly taken over by people who secretly hate it and seem determined to destroy it from within by ill thought-out political and military action..Seriously? What happened..?
Intelligence and government officials faced a delicate moral quandary in 1945 - whether it was worth it to give American homes to men who had invented weapons to kill American soldiers, men who in some cases subscribed to beliefs that hundreds of thousands Americans had died to eradicate. In the end they decided it was, if these men could help the United States defeat the Soviets.
I am still convinced this has a publicity undercurrent. Have the US they been asked officially about all the other hackers McKinnon says he saw? Why not? Everything leaves an electronic footprint, maybe he's being used as a quiet warning to other governments who were spying on the system?