{"id":1080,"date":"2009-01-26T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/01\/26\/gary-mckinnon-update\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:35:33","slug":"gary-mckinnon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/gary-mckinnon-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary McKinnon Update: British UFO Hacker&#8217;s Extradition Case to Be Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div class=\"artCont\">\n<h1 class=\"artTitle\">British UFO Hacker&#39;s Extradition Case to Be Reviewed<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"artSubtitle\">A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers has another chance at avoiding extradition&#8230;<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"artByline\">Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service<\/h3>\n<div class=\"artDate\">Friday, January 23, 2009 06:20 AM PST<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S.<br \/>\nmilitary computers has another chance at avoiding extradition after a<br \/>\ncourt ruling Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in London ruled that Gary<br \/>\nMcKinnon can have his case reviewed by the director of public<br \/>\nprosecutions for England and Wales, Keir Starmer, according to<br \/>\nstatement released by McKinnon&#39;s attorney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"showcaseAd\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>McKinnon<br \/>\nis seeking to be prosecuted in the U.K. although his extradition order<br \/>\nhas been approved by the U.K. government. He has managed to avoid<br \/>\nextradition so far through a series of legal maneuvers and appeals, all<br \/>\nof which have been unsuccessful but held up his transfer to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon<br \/>\nwas indicted in November 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the<br \/>\nEastern District of Virginia. He faces charges of illegally accessing<br \/>\nand damaging U.S. government computers.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government<br \/>\nalleges his exploits cost at least US$700,000 and caused the shutdown<br \/>\nof critical military networks shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001,<br \/>\nterrorist attacks. McKinnon could face a sentence of 60 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>Most<br \/>\nrecently, McKinnon has tried to garner support that, for medical<br \/>\nreasons, if he is extradited and sentenced he should be allowed to<br \/>\nserve a sentence in the U.K. Now McKinnon is pushing to only be<br \/>\nprosecuted in the U.K. due to the stress he would endure from a U.S.<br \/>\ntrial.<\/p>\n<p>He has been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, which is a<br \/>\nneurological disorder characterized by obsessive behavior and<br \/>\ndeficiencies in social interaction. <\/p>\n<p>McKinnon has admitted to<br \/>\nhacking the computers and described how he did it in detail at computer<br \/>\nsecurity conferences in London. From his north London home, McKinnon<br \/>\nbegan probing military computers looking for evidence of UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nused a program called &quot;RemotelyAnywhere&quot; to control U.S. military<br \/>\ncomputers. Many of the computers he accessed were set up with default<br \/>\npasswords, which made them easy to access, McKinnon has said.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\ntimed his hacking when no one was working at the U.S. offices. But on<br \/>\none occasion he miscalculated the time difference. Someone using a<br \/>\ncomputer that McKinnon controlled noticed the cursor moving on its own.<br \/>\nThe connection was severed, and U.K. police eventually tracked McKinnon<br \/>\ndown.<\/p>\n<p><em>\t<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/printable\/article\/id,158211\/printable.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/printable\/article\/id,158211\/printable.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"dividerDotted\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\t\t\t<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\t\t<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"rightColumn\">\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\t\t<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>\t<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}