AS Hacker Could Face 70 Years In Jail

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Being the victim of both hacking and cyberbullying, I can say quite frankly that we Aspies fall prey to such online threats quite easily. Any one of us who would use such threats themselves to prey on others may very well be preying on people much like himself, and I find that absolutely unforgivable.

If someone hacks into another person's computer, that someone should suffer the consequences and deserves what's coming to him. All my opinion, but I feel very strongly about it.

Getting hacked is no fun...and I'm still suffering from the post-traumatic stress over a year after the fact of the 2nd cyberbully attack in as many years.

Aspies are extra vulnerable to Internet attack. We should not be attacking people online because of the more than likely chance, considering how many of us love computers, that we would end up attacking other Aspies.

Also? You aren't as anonymous online as you might think. My 2nd cyberbully quoted very personal information about me in an e-mail to me, and I have no idea where she got it all. So...online attacks? Not smart. At all.

You don't want to do it, and you don't want to be the victim of it either. Trust me on that last part. I still get nervous if a car makes more than 3 of the same turns as I do. It's that bad. At least I got over the part where I couldn't leave my house without feeling everyone who saw me was laughing at me or talking about me behind my back as soon as I left...for the most part.

Why don't they just use the experience to see how he managed to get past. They thought their computers were secure. Obviously not. I would suggest increasing the security.
I like the part about "The US have power to extradite people from the UK with little or no evidence but for the UK to extradite a US citizen means a few hurdles" intriguing...

I was at my Gran's when I heard about this. She doesn't know that I've been diagnosed with Aspergers, but she's very 'politically correct' and was saying to me that he should definitely be let off due to his 'mental disability.'
To be honest, I don't think it's fair to focus solely on him being AS. If he was truly, as he claimed to be, searching for evidence of aliens then why did he leave snide messages online and delete classified files?
I wouldn't call it bad press exactly, but I think it's a stereotype.

He's just being made a scape-goat for the US's shambolic internet defenses. You have to question the sentence, 70 years? there are multiple-murderers who have recieved less.

I feel very strongly about Gary's case, and after all the total scum we have allowed to stay in the UK, like that f*****g hook handed terrorist. we can try him fairly at least. He was going to get SIX MONTHS COMMUNITY SERVICE! not 60 years in a supermax jail!! He would have even found community service hard, but it would have been easier to get UK authorities to take his AS into consideration though & give him something like litter picking where he would not need to interact too much, that and maybe a curfew & temporary internet ban just to show him the error of his ways would have been plenty.

Gary is pretty nieve, I would not hack into government machines, but I don't think he did hack anything, he didn't need to, the systems were wide open, unencrypted and didn't even have a basic password. If Bin Laden's lot had been doing it, they could have done something very serious like got into some nuclear controls or something.

He won`t go to jail anyway, they`ll just force him to hack for the US for the rest of his life...


I think this guy is a hero for mistrusting authority and trying to find out the truth without doing any damage and respecting privacy... INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!

It is a case of the British government BETRAYING a subject! He should be tried and punished in Britain.

This is an insult to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - this is based on an absurd treaty that the U.S. itself has not even signed (so it should not be considered to be valid) under which the U.S. does not even have to provide evidence before the UK must extradite one of its own. Meanwhile, Boris Berezovsky, aka the Godfather of the Kremlin, sits in London, protected from extradition to Russia despite being a Russian, and has a British passport with the fake name Platon Yelenin!

bit of an update on this case

wwwdotautismdotorgdotuk/mckinnon

I too have followed this case and feel very strongly about it, I could seriously rant on this but I'm new here, I wont just yet. Lets just say the UK Government need to step up to the plate here and do the right thing for once.

(sorry I couldnt post a proper link)

If I were ever set to be turned over to a foreign government by my own government. I would make it clear to everyone involved that I would consider such an act of my government to be an act of betrayal or treason against me. I would also make it clear that any loyalty or oaths to support or defend such government would become NULL AND VOID and that any state secret to which I was privy would be used by me to smooth things over with the government to which I was being transfered.

At long last a main British newspaper is starting a campaign to help, makes a change! what a nightmare and waste of taxes, but at least it has got people to start to talk about autism..

He didn't hack anything.

He got into computers because they were too dumb or lazy to change the password from the default that came with the software.

Er, i say they should halve his sentence, no less. <.<

Every other english subject who has hacked systems in america has been tried in england. They've also been sentences under british laws, instead of the absurd american ones (at least in this case they are absurd, 70 years?!?). I have no idea why we are treating this guy differently than everyone else.