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Old 06-09-2009, 10:07 AM   #1
Gemeos
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Default Brit Hacker Fights Extradition To America

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...ion_To_America

10:04am UK, Tuesday June 09, 2009
Mark White, Home Affairs correspondent

A British computer hacker at the centre of the biggest data breach in US government history will take his fight against extradition to the High Court in London.

Gary McKinnon illegally hacked into almost a hundred secure Pentagon and Nasa databases in the same year that terrorists carried out the 9/11 attacks.

The US authorities claim he is a cyber-terrorist and, if convicted, faces a possible 70-year prison sentence.
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