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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The U.K. government will give a British hacker a short extension to challenge an extradition order to face trial in the U.S. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said last Thursday he would not intervene to block the extradition of Gary McKinnon on medical grounds. McKinnon has admitted to hacking into U.S. military computers as well as others from his girlfriend's north London home in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon's...
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Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
A couple of days ago, Tom Harris published this posting in which he basically took Alan Johnson's line that Asperger's Sufferer Gary McKinnon should be hung out to dry and be extradited to the United States for trial. I think he's wrong, as I have posted before for both humanitarian and legal reasons, and here's why. Tom outlined what he saw as a series of myths in the debate about what should happen...
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stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Usually, I try to write rational, well-argued posts on this blog. But words fail me on hearing the news that Alan Johnson has refused to stop the deportation of Gary McKinnon , the man with Asperger syndrome whom the US "justice" system wants to lock up for 60 years for straying into their security system while hunting UFOs. Cold-hearted, gutless tosser.
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And another thing... (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
LET’S explode some myths on this one, shall we? MYTH #1: Computer hacking is not a serious crime. Yes it is, and it causes millions of pounds of damage every year. People who hack into other people’s computers should be charged and tried. If convicted, the sentences should be severe. MYTH #2: McKinnon was pursuing a harmless obsession [...]
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Obsolete (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
You do have to wonder exactly what both the United States and ourselves expected to happen when al-Megrahi touched down in Liby a. He was always going to be given something approaching a warm welcome, mainly because even while the country has paid reparations for the bombing, he is still regarded as innocent. As almost always, American and Western lives are regarded as having far more worth than those...
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, has expressed concern that emailing, texting and online social networks are creating shallow friendships and undermining community life. Nichols told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that social networking sites lead young people to form "transient relationships" that put them at heightened...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Nearly a dozen people who are accused of white collar crimes are waiting to be extradited under the same "lopsided" treaty which is being used to send computer programme Gary McKinnon across the Atlantic.
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Oxblood Ruffin is a Canadian writer and human rights activist based in Munich, Germany. He is a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacking collective, and Executive Director of Hacktivismo, an international group of hackers that develops circumvention technologies for users living behind national firewalls. Oxblood is a founding member of the Dharamsala Information Technology Group in Dharamsala,...
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