Friday, October 9, 2009

The biggest military hacker extradite U.S.

Briton accused of intrusion into the computer system of NASA and the Pentagon, characterized as "the biggest military hacking all the time, lost the last chance to avoid extradition to the United States.

Since the British chief prosecutor refused request of Gary Mekinona enable him to trial in Britain, Mekinonu was denied the ability to file an appeal to the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the UK.

High Court in London said that his case is not a matter of "general public importance", which is necessary to the case was forwarded to the Supreme Court, the Reuters reported.

Mekinonovi lawyers said that they are now thinking about filing a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. "The legal team is now estimated our position and try to prevent all the ways Garijevo extradition," said lawyer Mekinonov Keren Todner.

Recently found that Mekinon has Asperger syndrome, a kind of autism.

High Court verdict in the earlier accepted that the extradition could have consequences for his health, but it was not enough that the judges decide to be tried in Britain.
Mekinon, whom his lawyers describe as "eccentric UFO", used the Internet in search for life beyond Earth.

He is accused of causing the fire to 24 hours the entire computer network of the American army of more than 2,000 computers in Washington. U.S. authorities described the event as "the biggest military hacking all the time."

British hacker arrested in 2002. years after the U.S. prosecution filed a lawsuit against him for illegally accessing computers, including computer systems the Pentagon and NASA, as well as causing damages of 700,000 dollars.

Mekinon told Reuters that he is the only computer zaluđenik who wanted to find out whether aliens really exist. He became obsessed with hunting of any evidence of their existence through a vast network of military data.

Using your computer and Internet connection via telephone modem speed of 56 kilobytes per second, without password protection, he is from his home in London managed to avoid all the security measures used by the U.S. Army.

Mekinon admitted that he illegally hacked into the system, but said he had no bad intentions.

If he can be tried in American courts, Mekinon could be sentenced to up to 70 years in prison.

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