Re: [News] Another Chance for McKinnon After Human Rights Court Surrenders to Guantanamo Bush

["Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hadron wrote:
> "Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> > > NASA hacker makes final appeal to British government
> > >
> > > ,----[ Quote ]
> > > | Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who successfully breached top US
> > > government | security, has reportedly made a final appeal to home
> > > secretary Jacqui Smith | to prevent his extradition to the US.  | |
> > > The appeal comes one day after the European Court of Human Rights
> > > yesterday | turned town McKinnon's bid to prevent the extradition.
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> > >
> > > http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=723828469&rid=-50
> > "Your security is crap"
> >
> > LMAO!
> >
> > Still, I do feel sorry for him. He's gonna be wearing an orange
> > jumpsuit for a long time. If the yanks had any pissing sense they'd
> > use him to help shore up their security.
> The whole thing is ludicrous. The man is being made a scapegoat for
> something.

They're following the "shut the guy up" school of problem solving rather 
than what they should be doing - making their servers secure.