Gary McKinnon

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Gary McKinnon is a Scottish hacker who, by hacking into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers, claims to have found evidence for UFO cover-ups and suppression of free energy.[1]

"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.

"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."

"Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?"

"I guess so," says Gary.

"What were the ship names?"

"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."
Jon Ronson interviews Gary McKinnon, 2005

[edit] Extradition and terrorism

Whether or not these claims are true is unclear. Regardless, the U.S. authorities want to extradite and charge him with terrorism offences, and accuse him of causing $800,000 dollars in damage. McKinnon insists that he actually caused no damage, and in fact left messages on the hacked systems informing their operators of security weaknesses. For a hardened cyber terrorist intent on bringing down the United States, it is unusual that he had no more than a dial-up internet connection.

Somewhat of a recluse, diagnosed as having Asperger's syndrome, he is far from the international terrorist certain U.S. agencies claim him to be. Although he may be a 9/11 truther, that doesn't seem to justify extradition proceedings.[2]

His extradition was recently blocked by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, and he was to stand trial in the United Kingdom.[3] The charges were dropped in December 2012.[4]

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