Hello!
Well, today
we have to do a summary about some news on internet, who were related whit what
I study, Laws. I chose one about a British hacker who was about to be extradited.
All starts
when Gary McKinnon , a 46-years-old man who was diagnosed whit Asperger’s syndrome, was at
his pc looking for UFO’s information, and searching, he arrived at the US defence sites; so, he enter on the US defences systems.
He broke the security for a lot of the defence’s systems at the US: the US
military sites, the NASA sites and the US naval station Earle in New
Jersey, just for say some of thems. He didn’t mind writing on one of the sites “your security is crap”.
He did all this
during a time when security US defence’s systems were unsophisticated, and it
was easy to violate them. When the US defence realized his security’s system
were violated, they look at who was doing it, and they found Gary.
He was then
accused of deleting information, shut down the sites and copying information;
and they wanted to extradite him from UK to US to face charges. Naturally, the
family didn´t want that, because of the condition of his son.
At 2004,
the extradition order from the US arrived on Gary’s place, and he was arrested
in March the next year. That fact started a serial of discussion about the integrity
and justice of UK’S extradition proceedings, and even arrived at the House of
Lords, were was even a revision from the extradition treaty between UK and US.
Last Tuesday,
the home secretary (the “ministro del interior”), Theresa May, looking at new evidence
about the fragile mind’s state of Gary, decided that sending him to the US
would breach his human rights.
I think it's a delicated case. The fact that McKinnon had Asperger disease may mean that he is incapable so the crimes he commited must not be punished like "normal" capable people... or maybe not haha I don't know the law in those english-spoken languajes
ResponderEliminarReading your post remind me that...I was gonna do the same xD.
ResponderEliminarIn fact, I consider that Theresa May´s declaration are really important to Gary. Certainly an obsacle for USA´s request. Even though violate a security system is a crime, this is about someome with an Asperger´s syndrome so, crearly it´s impossible to get him proccess like other people.
Finally, I was rememberin when I read on the news "your security is crap"
ps. "Do post 4", funny thing in order to remember it :)
The people with this disease, as well as any other medical condition deserves an special treatment and trying to make him force charges like any other ordinary person it is unfair. But in the other hand, you have the US position but i think they could make and exception and take the case as something that make them more safety.
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