Battleangel

Will now face the so called justice from the so called leader of the so called free world.

Gary McKinnon, otherwise known by his hacking handle “Solo,” has been fighting extradition since 2002. He has admitted to hacking into the servers, however denies doing any damage. McKinnon says his attacks were motivated by a search for “suppressed technology.”

According to the U.S. government, the Polish-born McKinnon caused $700,000 worth of damage and rendered critical systems inoperable at Earle Naval Weapons Station in northern New Jersey shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Justice Department claimed it took nearly a month to return the servers to operation following McKinnon’s actions.

Even though I believe the US is constantly misrepresenting the facts, I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually took them a month to find the reset switch as it were. If anything, McKinnon ought to get a stipend for exposing security flaws that the US government was simply too ignorant to mend.