I wonder what he found.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Is he in jail?
Jolanta
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July 15, 2019
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No, Extradition from the UK was blocked
@Jolanta well they haven't finished extradition hearings yet. I don't know what will happen with Assange. I'd hope to see his Swedish accusers have their day in court. But yes in the UK we consider rape to be a far more serious crime than breaking into computer systems so Assange will probably be treated less favourably than Mc Kinnon what with the efforts he's gone to to evade a court hearing and the costs that;s incurred. Also we have reservations about sending mentally ill people to be tried in a country that has a poor human rights record in that regard.
@Jolanta I'm sure you were. And you seemed to suggest that the UK courts are happy for him to go to the US. Yet as far as I understand, no decision has been made. There's a hearing due in February. Sweden have requested his extradition as have the US. M'learned colleague David Allen Green summaries well here [newstatesman.com] From where did you hear that his accusers don't want anything to do with it? That comes as a surprise to me.
McKinnon says that he found lists of servicemen assigned to ships that were otherwise unlisted. The lists were titled Non-Terrestrial Officers. This was understood as evidence for a secret space program that developed vehicles back-engineered from UFO crashes. This is corroborated by whistle-blowers who describe US-made flying saucers and TR3B triangle type aircraft. That is where some of the missing trillions went that was a big deal just before 9/11. Chalk it up to conspiracy theory, but the MIC/Deep State have been pushing the debunking cover-story since Roswell. Hundreds have testified that they and their families have being intimidated with death threats for saying what they've seen. Intimidation wouldn't be necessary if it was just BS.
racocn8
Level 9
July 15, 2019
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Autistic conspiracy theorist logs into military systems by trying the default password. US military loses its shit and goes on the offensive to cover for its own incompetence.
[theregister.co.uk]
MattHardy
Level 7
July 15, 2019
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Hopefully he finds some jail time.
"The US authorities stated he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the United States Army's Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours. McKinnon also posted a notice on the military's website: "Your security is crap". After the September 11 attacks in 2001, he deleted weapons logs at the Earle Naval Weapons Station, rendering its network of 300 computers inoperable and paralyzing munitions supply deliveries for the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. McKinnon was also accused of copying data, account files and passwords onto his own computer. US authorities stated the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was over $700,000"
1of5
Level 8
July 15, 2019
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$700,000 was an exceptionally inexpensive cost to find out their security was near non-existent. A consultant would charge 100 times that much.
Jail time ?. he should have been given an award for showing how crap their security was.
Despite severe pressure from the US to have him extradited , the UK govt refused to let him go. One good thing Theresa May did as home secretary
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