Gary McKinnon

[andrewducker]

Can anyone explain to me, in nice simple English, why we shouldn't be extraditing a convicted hacker to the country where he commited the crime?  It really does seem like an open and shut case to me, and I'm baffled why some people seem to think it's wrong.

I'm clearly missing something - can someone explain it to me?

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[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Copied from one of my respones on the aspergers group:

Being an aspie who in the past may have tinkered with networked computer systems, I feel that a better use of government resources and a more fair approach would have been to issue a threat of prosecution to McKinnon. Most likely he would have been scared s**tless that the authorities were on to him and were considering prosecution. The authorities would fix the holes that had been identified, the public purse would be spared the huge cost so far, and McKinnon could get on with his life, most likely being a highly useful member of staff in some IT department.

I'm not at all worried about the McKinnon's of this world, for my tax money he's been punished enough, learned his lesson and I think the authorities should focus on real threats from people who have openly declared that they want to wipe us from the face of the earth.


Admitedly that message he posted was pretty dumb, but I'd rather have my taxes spent on proscuting real threats rather then punishing dumb actions.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I don't think he was malicious - just an idiot.