October 28, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Gary McKinnon, the UK based hacker who allegedly hacked into a number of computer systems on US military sites has had his extradition to the US delayed. McKinnon suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and a growing number of supporters, including MP, David Burrowes are arguing that imprisonment in a US maximum security prison would be highly dangerous to his mental health.
The groundswell of support for Mr. McKinnon has led to the involvement of home secretary Alan Johnson, who has ‘stopped the clock’ on the court proceedings to allow McKinnon’s lawyers time to review the medical evidence. Mr Johnson stated that ‘I have to ensure that his Article 3 human rights are being respected. It’s that new medical evidence that I will be looking at very carefully.’
McKinnon is reiterating that his only aim in hacking into the systems was to attempt to find evidence of the alleged UFO sightings at the military sites. He gained access to the systems via the windows operating system as he has explained to journalists previously, ‘I found out that the US military use Windows and having realised this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn’t secured it properly.’
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