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Gary McKinnon (born February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". [1] McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public.
Dec 11, 2023 · Gary McKinnon got his first computer at age 14. It was the Atari 400, which proved to be a capable device for learning to write code in Basic. Inspired by the movie WarGames, where Matthew Broderick acted as a young hacker breaching into the Pentagon, McKinnon left school at 17, worked as a hairdresser, and later found sporadic work in tech support.
- Senior Journalist
Jun 16, 2008 · Published: 16 Jun 2008 15:57. Self-confessed British hacker Gary McKinnon, who is fighting extradition to the US, broke into more than 73,000 US government computers, including those of the US ...
Oct 16, 2012 · More than a decade after he broke into US defence sites, the Briton's case has rewritten the law on extradition
Mar 23, 2009 · 50. In the High Court decision (McKinnon v.Government of the USA, [2007] EWHC 762, at p. 8), Lord Justice Kay discounted an argument made on the basis of the disparity in possible sentences between the United States and United Kingdom: ‘[I]f convicted, Mr McKinnon would be facing sentence for very serious offences and the fact that any sentence would be longer than an English court might ...
- Paul Arnell, Alan Reid
- 2009
Jun 27, 2011 · UPDATE 29 Jan. 2024: In the 13 years since Spectrum’ s feature story about Gary McKinnon originally appeared online and in print, McKinnon and his mother won their case defending the hacker from ...
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Dec 14, 2012 · Gary McKinnon is arrested by British police in his flat in north London. He is accused of hacking into highly sensitive US military computers between February 2001 and March 2002, external.The US ...
