http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/pop-superstar-s.html By Kevin Poulsen Threat Level Wired.com March 03, 2009 International pop star Sting is the latest British celebrity to throw his weight behind 9/11 truther and admitted Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon, the U.K. man who's still fighting tooth and nail to avoid a U.S. trial on computer hacking charges. "It's a travesty of human rights that Gary McKinnon finds himself in this dreadful situation," the former Police front man told the Mail on Sunday. "The U.S. response in relation to the true nature of Gary's crime is disproportionate in the extreme," Sting said, referring to the extremely disproportionate response of charging a 42-year-old man with computer intrusion, when all he did was intrude into some computers. Prosecutors say McKinnon broke into more than 90 unclassified Pentagon systems in 2001 and 2002, allegedly crashing some of them. He has said he was looking for proof of a UFO cover-up, though he left this message in an Army computer in 2002: "U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days ... It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year ... I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels." [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Mar 04 2009 - 04:14:20 PST
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