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Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a British hacker facing extradition to the United States on charges of perpetrating what is claimed by one US prosecutor to be the "biggest military computer hack of all time."

Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the US. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against the ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London, which was turned down on 3 April. On 30 July 2007 the House of Lords agreed to hear the appeal and on 17 June 2008 the Law Lords began hearing the case. This Judgment was delivered on 30 July 2008 with the Law Lords judging that Gary McKinnon could be extradited to the United States. He was given two weeks to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights before extradition, but the Court halted the extradition for an additional two weeks to allow time to hear his appeal on August 28, which was subsequently rejected.

His legal team subsequently decided to lodge another appeal, which was granted, based on the fact that McKinnon had recently been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. His diagnosis was made in August 2008 by the psychologist Prof Simon Baron-Cohen.

On 31 July 2009, McKinnon lost his application for judicial review of the Home Secretary's decision not to block the extradition, and also of the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision not to bring proceedings in the English courts.

The Glasgow-born systems administrator, who attended Highgate Wood Secondary School in north London, is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers in 2001 and 2002, using the name 'Solo'. The computer networks he is accused of hacking include networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense, and the US Air Force.

The US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the US Army’s Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours, as well as deleting US Navy Weapons logs, rendering a naval base's network of 300 computers inoperable after the September 11th terrorist attacks. They claim the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was $700,000.

McKinnon has denied causing any damage, arguing that he accessed open, unsecured machines, and disputes the financial loss claimed by the US as concocted in order to create a dollar amount justifying an extraditable offence. While it did not constitute evidence of destruction, he did admit leaving a diatribe on one computer:

"US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days? It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand-down on September 11 last year...I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.”

McKinnon was tracked down and arrested under the Computer Misuse Act by the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). Later that year he was indicted by the US government. McKinnon remained at liberty without restriction for three years until June 2005 (after the UK had implemented a new extradition treaty with the US) when he became subject to bail conditions including a requirement to sign in at his local police station every evening, and to remain at his home address at night. In addition, he was banned from using a computer with access to the Internet. There have been no more developments in respect of the charges relating to United Kingdom legislation but in late 2005 the United States began extradition proceedings.

If he is extradited to the US and charged, McKinnon faces up to 70years in jail and has expressed fears that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay. He continues to contest the extradition proceedings and believes that he should face trial in the UK, principally as he argues that the destruction allegations are fraudulent and that any alleged crimes were committed there and not in the United States.

US authorities deny this, however, and claim that McKinnon is trying to downplay his own actions. A senior military officer at the Pentagon told The Sunday Telegraph "US policy is to fight these attacks as strongly as possible. As a result of Mr McKinnon's actions, we suffered serious damage. This was not some harmless incident. He did very serious and deliberate damage to military and Nasa computers and left silly and anti-America messages. All the evidence was that someone was staging a very serious attack on US computer systems."

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This guy is funny, and also f*ckin clever!!

thats just wrong

Eye thats true lol..