Nasa hacker: I'm safe until prosecution decision
News At the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, McKinnon told ZDNet UK that home secretary Jacqui Smith had decided not to extradite the self-confessed hacker to the US to face charges of hacking military networks until Keir Starmer, the director of...
[January 21, 2009, 11:03]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith said that, as well as Thales's £18m contract for development of technology and processes — which was publicised last year — nCipher will be paid about £1.3m for a contract to provide "public key infrastructure and...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal
News McKinnon's recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had not changed home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision that the self-confessed Nasa hacker be extradited, said McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner on Monday.
[October 14, 2008, 12:14]
Trades Unions against ID Cards
Blog In a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the TUC said it had "significant and substantive" concerns about ID cards, due to be rolled out to airport workers in 2009. Unions representing the airport workforce recognise the need for effective...
[July 22, 2008, 17:08]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News Wiltshire's comments follow a Bata letter of protest sent to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week, signed by the chief executives of British Airways, BMI, EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic. The letter lambasted the government over ID card security...
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News Lord Carlile told The Guardian on Monday that he had sent a letter to home secretary Jacqui Smith pressing for UK prosecution for McKinnon. The UK should seriously consider whether to prosecute here," said Justice director Roger Smith.
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
Tories urge contractors to shun ID card deals
News Former home secretary Jacqui Smith told parliament in March that to cancel the scheme for two of the contractors would incur £40m in costs for the government. The letter referred to "poisoned pill" contractual break clauses that might be designed...
[June 17, 2009, 17:04]
MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News The Home Office added that previous home secretary Jacqui Smith had sought and received assurances from the US that McKinnon's health and welfare needs would be met if he were imprisoned there. Labour MP Michael Meacher, Conservative David Davis...
[September 10, 2009, 16:16]
Nasa hacker loses bid to avoid extradition
News McKinnon had tried to argue that former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was wrong in law to push for the extradition despite his diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, and that the director of public prosecutions was also wrong to opt for extradition...
[July 31, 2009, 15:20]
Deadline set for Nasa-hacker prosecution decision
News In addition to the decision of Starmer, on Tuesday 20 January the High Court will hear oral evidence from McKinnon's legal representation, who contend McKinnon's diagnosis of Asperger's in the summer was not taken into account by the home...
[January 15, 2009, 15:39]
Nasa hacker appeals to Bush for pardon
News McKinnon's defence contend that McKinnon's diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome in the summer was not taken into account by the home secretary Jacqui Smith when she rejected McKinnon's second appeal against extradition in October.
[January 16, 2009, 12:45]
Nasa hacker closer to extradition after CPS refusal
News Todner said that the next step would be a High Court review of home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision to turn down McKinnon's appeal against extradition last year. In December, McKinnon's legal team sent a letter to the CPS in which he confessed to...
[February 26, 2009, 16:36]
