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This poor bastard... I don't know what to say. On one hand, I'd want to know if the Government was hiding this kind of information to the public, but on the other hand, he had to know the implications of such a maneuver. Up to 70 years in prison. I don't know the current cost of military hacking, but 70 years and 2 million seems steep. If anything, it should be one or the other. I would just hate to see someone like this go to the same kind of prison complex that murderers and rapists are sent to.
The touchy aspect of this, aside from the ultra-obvious, s that we can't prove he was looking for what he says he was looking for and not some sensitive national security information. Of course, some feel that what he was looking for is national security information.
At any rate, the time has come for Gary to pay the piper.
LONDON - A British "UFO eccentric", wanted in the United States for breaking into NASA and Pentagon computers in "the biggest military hack of all time", lost his latest battle to avoid extradition on Friday.
Gary McKinnon, 43, was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, Britain's highest judicial body, as he continued his long battle to avoid being sent to the United States.
McKinnon, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, had challenged a refusal by Britain's chief prosecutor to allow him to be tried in Britain, which would have avoided any need for extradition.
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