Security News > 2009 > January > Clock ticking for hacker McKinnon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7831481.stm By Simon Hancock BBC News 15 January 2009 Computer hacker Gary McKinnon should know within four weeks whether his attempts to fight extradition to the US have any chance of success. Mr McKinnon was joined by his supporters and advisers in London to repeat their call for a UK trial rather than extradition. He admits hacking into US government computer systems in 2001 and 2002 in the search for information about UFOs, which he believed to have been suppressed by the US authorities. The US treated his activities as cyber-terrorism. If he were to be extradited he faces a possible 70 years in a maximum security jail. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.html