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Story: Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal

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Totally Weird

Does anyone else feel that there are some glaring oddities surrounding the Gary Mckinnon case?

For example, we are led to believe that he accessed over 73,000 computers belonging to various military and aerospace organisations (this seems to have risen exponentially from the 90 odd he was accused of back in 2002). Now let's assume he only took 2 minutes to hack into each machine and spent 5 minutes trawling around looking for little green men and (if the various organisations are to be believed) deleting top secret files. Without any breaks in between for the mundane things in life like food, sleep and relieving bodily functions that would have taken him A WHOLE YEAR to achieve. I mean what the hell?
Are we meant to believe that in all that time no-one cottoned onto the files going missing or the intrusions themselves?
And let's not forget that this incredible accomplishment was made by a man who is a self confessed habitual cannabis and alcohol abuser. Are security measures so bad over the pond that even stoned drunkards can penetrate their most closely guarded systems?

The subject matter itsself is similarly incredible. If Gary himself is to be believed he actually found evidence of anti gravity technology, UFO's and "free energy". Precisely the kind of things people using marijuana have been accused of seeing and believing for years anyhow!

Then there's the tenacity of the American judicial system in its attempt to extradite him and the inability of the British system to protect him. The Americans don't usually make too much of a fuss when they have their systems compromised, they usually patch them quietly and let it all slip under the carpet. Why the huge fuss now?
And why are the Home Office and everyone else involved over here just rolling on their backs and showing their belly's?

It's all very odd and I doubt we will ever get to the bottom of it.
On one hand you have a foreign governent virtually dictating policy over here and calling this guy the biggest cybercriminal in history, on the other, a drunk stoner who claims that it's a knee jerk reaction to him blowing apart the biggest cover-up ever perpetrated using nothing more than an outdated PC and a 56k modem.

To quote Shakespeare, "something is rotten in the state of Denmark".

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