Tuesday, April 03, 2007
McKinnon has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on hacking charges
Seems McKinnon, apparently hardly the obvious Mafia hacker or even a shill or stooge, described himself as a "bumbling nerd". The 40-year-old computer enthusiast from north London apparently hacked into dozens of US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense computers, as well as 16 Nasa computers.
If accurate, it all seems to show.
(1) US defenses against hacking are appallingly bad, more than likely - its hardly likely to be all 'honeytraps' that McKinnon has allegedly penetrated. Chilling, and a partial justification for white hat hacking attempts. Seems Mckinnon was looking for 'flying saucers' (!!??).
(2) It seems a little excessive in the circumstances that McKinnon faces up to life in jail in the USA for little more than rather childish games on his home suburban UK computer. He is after all a UK citizen. Although it does seem that through its efforts in pushing casinos over here, the USA is trying to turn UK into a sort of pre-Castro Cuba, through Tony B. Liar, surely things have not gone that far yet.
In the meantime, UK Home Secretary John Reid has split the UK Home Office in two and we can reasonably question whether he will now 'move on' or will he in some way remedy its faults. If he does not put the work in to remedy the UK Home Office's (agreed) faults, maybe he has done much more damage to US/UK security than McKinnon.
IMO: Should John Reid be sent to jail for life also if he does not put the Home Office right. At least he has been well paid to do so. Maybe his extradition to the US should be sought if he does not live up to his (politician's) promises.
If accurate, it all seems to show.
(1) US defenses against hacking are appallingly bad, more than likely - its hardly likely to be all 'honeytraps' that McKinnon has allegedly penetrated. Chilling, and a partial justification for white hat hacking attempts. Seems Mckinnon was looking for 'flying saucers' (!!??).
(2) It seems a little excessive in the circumstances that McKinnon faces up to life in jail in the USA for little more than rather childish games on his home suburban UK computer. He is after all a UK citizen. Although it does seem that through its efforts in pushing casinos over here, the USA is trying to turn UK into a sort of pre-Castro Cuba, through Tony B. Liar, surely things have not gone that far yet.
In the meantime, UK Home Secretary John Reid has split the UK Home Office in two and we can reasonably question whether he will now 'move on' or will he in some way remedy its faults. If he does not put the work in to remedy the UK Home Office's (agreed) faults, maybe he has done much more damage to US/UK security than McKinnon.
IMO: Should John Reid be sent to jail for life also if he does not put the Home Office right. At least he has been well paid to do so. Maybe his extradition to the US should be sought if he does not live up to his (politician's) promises.
# posted by uv : 10:16 PM
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