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Subject: [ISN] Pentagon hacker says charges have been manufactured
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2006-08-28 5:03:44
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0608280003350.25390 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/25/extradition_hacker/
By OUT-LAW.COM
25th August 2006
The hacker at the centre of an extradition storm after he broke into the
US Military and NASA computer systems has said the charges against him
in the US have been manufactured to ease his extradition there.
"For it to be extraditable under their computer laws in America you have
to have caused $5,000 worth of damage and lo and behold they say that
every computer I was on I caused exactly $5,000 worth of damage so it is
patently a falsely structured argument," Gary McKinnon told OUT-LAW.
McKinnon makes the claims in OUT-LAW Radio, a new weekly podcast from
OUT-LAW launched today.
Home Secretary John Reid signed McKinnon's order for extradition to the
US in July, a decision McKinnon is now appealing. McKinnon's lawyers
have warned that not only could he face a secret military trial with no
right of appeal, but that he could even be sent to detention camp
Guantanemo Bay.
"At first I laughed when this was first raised, I said 'come on, don't
be ridiculous', but as someone pointed out most of the people if not all
the people have never even proven to have been terrorists and they've
been languishing there for years," McKinnon tells OUT-LAW Radio.
"Whereas allegedly I've directly attacked military networks, so that put
it in perspective for me."
McKinnon admits accessing the secret computers in 2001 and 2002, saying
that he was looking for and found evidence of alien life and
reverse-engineered alien technology. But whereas UK prosecutors said
that he would serve community service, US prosecutors are publicly
threatening him with sentences of up to 70 years in jail.
McKinnon argues that he should be tried, but that it should be in the
UK, where the offence was committed. He says that he was working with
very basic hacking tools from a simple internet connection, and that the
only reason he was able to access systems was because security was so
poor.
"When you look at the fact that my method for gaining entry was scanning
for blank passwords, technically you could say that there was no
security to begin with," he said.
Hear the interview: OUT-LAW Radio - http://www.out-law.com/page-7212
Copyright 2006, OUT-LAW.com
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