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European Court backs UK hacker extradition
August 28th, 2008 posted by
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LONDON, England (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who hacked into secret U.S. military computers.
The court Thursday refused to delay Gary McKinnon’s extradition to the United States. He claims the extradition would violate his human rights.
U.S. prosecutors want to put him on trial for allegedly hacking into 97 computers belonging to NASA and several branches of the military from a bedroom in his north London home.
McKinnon claims he was searching for UFOs.
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