Idiot Hacker Will be Extradited

Gary McKinnon, a dimwitted, bumbling hacker wannabe, who damaged computers belonging to a Naval Weapons Station, lost his bid to avoid extradition by failing to prove that he will be sent to Club Gitmo and tried as a terrorist.

The judge laughed and dismissed his claims. From the Silicon here:

UK Nasa hacker loses extradition fight
Judge paves way for Gary McKinnon to be tried in the US…

By Will Sturgeon

Published: Wednesday 10 May 2006

A court has ruled that UK computer expert Gary McKinnon can be extradited to the US on charges of hacking US defence systems and causing $700,000 worth of damage.

McKinnon was arrested in the UK in June last year and the US authorities want to extradite him and try him on charges of illegally accessing 97 government computers during a 12-month period starting in February 2001.

Now McKinnon, 40, is one step closer to extradition after a judge at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London dismissed his legal objections to such a measure being imposed.

McKinnon must now await the decision of the Home Secretary after his objections were thrown out and in one instance branded “feeble”.

Judge Nicholas Evans said there is no reason why McKinnon should not face trial in the US for a series of computer hacks which caused damage to US military computers.

“My view is, unquestionably, if the defendant is to face prosecution, it should be in the US,” he said. “I readily accept, if convicted in the US the probable sentence is likely to be appreciably harsher… than it would be in the UK… but so be it.”

See the rest of the articles on McKinnon here. Note that this idiot has no skills. He stumbled upon weak passwords in programs like PCAnywhere and Remotely Anywhere on government systems, and then used his access to delete files.