[pchelpers] News:Hacker's alien habit may log him off for life

5:00AM Monday July 28, 2008
By Jamie Doward


LONDON - British man Gary McKinnon is just days from learning whether he
is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his
obsession with aliens.

McKinnon, 42, from Enfield in north London, is accused by American
prosecutors of illegally accessing top-secret computer systems in what
they claimed in one legal document was "the biggest military computer
hack of all time".

The self-taught IT expert insists he was simply looking for information
the United States Government had on UFOs and is adamant that he never
damaged any of its computer systems. This argument, however, cuts little
ice with the Americans trying to extradite him.

More here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10523789
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