This is a plea for common sense. Gary McKinnon is a British citizen facing extradition to the United States for hacking. He was looking for UFO evidence. It can hardly be called hacking when the systems he accessed did not even have passwords, despite this US prosecutors accuse him of “biggest military computer hack of all time”.

Gary McKinnon has aspergers. His fight against extradition has exposed to the British public that Blair signed an unfair one way only extradition treaty. His trial in the US will however be a further blight on the American Judicial System.

Mr. McKinnon is not James Bond. He is not a virus writer. He was not out to sell Army information to hostile Foreign nations. He did not engage in torture. He was not behind 9/11. He was looking for evidence of little green men.

He did not break any systems. He did not remotely format hard discs or destroy data, yet US Prosecutors are charging him with for $$millions in damages, for PCs left online and without any password. He faces decades in jail for gaining access to unsecured PCs.

Surely if there is any “criminal damage” it was caused by the neglect of US Government IT managers, whose failure allowed a man, from England, to remotely access these “top secret” computers, without a password. Perhaps those pointing the finger should be the ones facing prosecution?

It is known that on occasion virus writers get a job with anti virus software houses. If these computers were so difficult to hack into without a password, then rather than prosecute him, reward him with a job. How many more PCs are left unsecure on the Government network? Isn’t it better for someone like Mckinnon to find them as opposed to Iran?

Yes, under the unfair one way treaty with the US, the DofJ has a right to prosecute him, but within that right the US needs to consider whether it is within the public interest to prosecute him.

Mckinnon is not a threat to the US National Security, and the extradition treaty should not be used to cover up for IT staff who failed to do their job.

The treaty was signed on the back of anti-terrorism. Gary is not a terrorist.

Despite this, the Prosecution allege his conduct was intentional and calculated to affect them by “intimidation and coercion”. Really, an autistic man can intimidate the largest military in the World?



Even the UK anti terror boss says putting him on trial in the US would be cruel

This is not what the extradition treaty should be used for.