A UFO enthusiast accused of the “biggest military hack of all time” has lost his appeal to the Law Lords against extradition to the United States.
Gary McKinnon, an unemployed 42-year-old, faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the US of sabotaging vital defence systems.
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The House of Lords rejected a plea by McKinnon, who was never charged in Britain after admitting accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers, to quash an extradition request granted to the US authorities in 2006.
Lawyers for McKinnon, from Enfield, north London, pointed out that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect – despite his insistence that he accessed Pentagon computers looking for information about UFOs.
From the bedroom of his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in north London, he hacked into 97 American military computers at the Pentagon and Nasa between 2001 and 2002.
McKinnon never denied that he wandered around the computer networks of a wide number of US military institutions.
But he has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he managed to get into the networks only because of lax security.
American authorities claim he stole 950 passwords and deleted files at Earle naval weapons station in New Jersey.
He was accused of using his computer skills to gain access to 53 US Army computers, including those used for national defence and security, and 26 US Navy computers, including those at US Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey, which is responsible for replenishing munitions and supplies for the deployed Atlantic fleet.
He was also charged with hacking into 16 Nasa computers and one US Defence Department computer
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