Alien-Hunting UK Hacker Coming to America

The British House of Lords has decided to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who hacked his way into several U.S. military, defense and NASA computers, to the United States to stand trial. McKinnon has been fighting extradition since the discovery in 2002 that he was the one who broke into the U.S. government’s most sensitive networks — reportedly from a friend’s aunt’s house — between 2001 and 2002. He allegedly caused $900,000 in damages to computers located in 14 states.

Alien-Hunting UK Hacker Coming to America

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