[pchelpers] News:Terry Waite speaks for Nasa hacker

Monday 16 March 2009, 4:20 PM
Posted by Tom Espiner
The Pentagon should thank Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the
fragility" of US military systems, according to Terry Waite.

Waite, who was held hostage in Lebanon for four years after being
kidnapped in 1987, said that McKinnon's motives were "harmless",
according to an article by Jack Doyle, a Press Association legal affairs
correspondent.

"Gary is clearly a very clever chap," said Waite. "He has that unique
ability to find his way through the internet jungle and enter the inner
recesses of the Pentagon. Full marks for his ingenuity. Was Gary a spy?
Was he attempting to bring down the mighty military force of the USA? As
far as I know he was not. He was simply looking for little green men.
Anyone who has the slightest acquaintance with that problem (Asperger’s
Syndrome) will know that while the sufferer can be, and indeed often is,
brilliant in certain logical processes they can become irrationally
obsessive in other directions. The Pentagon ought to thank him for
exposing the vulnerability of their systems. More importantly, the
accused is suffering from Asperger's Syndrome and no nation under the
sun ought to convict an individual whose behaviour is occasioned by
illness."

More here:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012361o-2000331828b,00.htm
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