armed forces computers and another 16 belonging to NASA, compromised the safety of Navy ships, stole documents and passwords, triggered the shutdown of a 2000-terminal Washington network, deleted critical files and caused a total of $700,000 worth of damage. 2001 and March 2002 McKinnon hacked into 81 U.S. government alleges, among other things, that between Feb. Delivering a ruling that seemed pitched at would-be hackers everywhere, the appeal court judge said, "It must be obvious to any defendant that if you choose to commit a crime in a foreign country, you run the risk of being prosecuted in that country," and no matter that the sentence McKinnon faces is likely to be "appreciably harsher" than if he was tried in the U.K. prosecutor called "the biggest military computer hack of all time," is edging inexorably closer. court on charges linking him to what one U.S. This much is sure: with only the hope of a last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to cling to, the 42-year-old Briton's date with a U.S. Follow July 30 decision by Britain's Court of Appeal to allow the extradition of alleged cyber-hacker Gary McKinnon is one that takes some decoding.
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