http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10172024-83.html By Tom Espiner Security CNet News February 25, 2009 Support is building in the British Parliament and from legal experts for self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon to be tried in the U.K. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile of Berriew, Queen's Counsel, the independent reviewer of Britain's antiterror laws, told CNET News sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, means he should be tried in Britain rather than in the U.S. McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome last summer by Cambridge University autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen. Despite the diagnosis, the Home Office refused to halt McKinnon's extradition to the United States to face charges of hacking 97 U.S. military computers. McKinnon, who is 43 years old, faces up to 70 years in a maximum security jail if tried and found guilty under U.S. antiterror laws. U.S. prosecutors claim McKinnon was politically motivated to access the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and NASA systems. McKinnon claims he was searching for UFOs. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Feb 25 2009 - 23:03:32 PST
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