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Story: Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal

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Political or Judicial Decision?

This smacks very much of being a political decision with scant regard to common sense or practical justice. Such decisions as this must NOT be allowed to be made by politicians or civil servants, they must always be made by the judiciary who are (we trust) independent of politics. Such a decision by the present untrustworthy government smacks so much of political collusion that it not acceptable.
The American government is pushing for this, not for any justice in this comparatively minor offence, but to cover their embarrassment at having so vulnerable a system.
The hacker should be congratulated in showing the weaknesses in the system rather than sacrificed to the US penal system.

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