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[ NNSquad ] Pentagon Hacker, McKinnon, Wins 10-Year Extradition Battle
Pentagon Hacker, McKinnon, Wins 10-Year Extradition Battle http://j.mp/OFsRGf (Wired) "Accused British hacker Gary McKinnon has won his ten-year battle to resist extradition to the U.S. on charges that he hacked Pentagon computers in the U.S. U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May announced on Tuesday that her office would block the U.S. extradition request on human rights grounds, since McKinnon, 46, was at high risk of suicide were he to be sent to the U.S. to face trial." - - - Note that this is a medical decision, not one based on the merits of the case, per se. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad