Comments on: British Hacker Gary McKinnon Fears Guantanamo

By: NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Wins Right to Lords Appeal Extradition Hearing | Darknet - The Darkside

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:14:12 +0000

[...] British Hacker Gary McKinnon Fears Guantanamo [...]

By: Gary McKinnon Busted Because he Forgot the Time Difference »

Gary McKinnon Busted Because he Forgot the Time Difference » — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:27:25 +0000

[...] It turns out Gary McKinnon got sloppy, that’s why he got busted. He forgot the computers he was comprimising were in a completely different time zone, and as he was using remote control software, the person in the office saw their mouse moving around. We have reported about this guy before, when he was fearing being exported and chucked in Guantanamo. A British computer hacker facing extradition for breaking into United States military computers said today that computer administrators fail to take easy steps that deter unwanted intrusions. [...]

By: Hoovskinstein

Hoovskinstein — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:58:07 +0000

Go to Free Gary for more information and expression of interest relating to Gazza's freedom!

By: Navaho Gunleg » Free Gary McKinnon

Navaho Gunleg » Free Gary McKinnon — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:29:13 +0000

[...] After reading this article on Darknet I decided to throw a “Free Gary” banner in the sidebar here to make more and more people aware of this weird case. The US is obviously scared of this guy (or guys alike) and rather sees them removed from society… They are of course trying to give him the maximum penalty, serving as an example to prevent other people from trying the same. [...]

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:59:54 +0000

We have all the reasons to fear them, Darknet. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. ;)

If you say or do something that doesn’t fit into their plan of action you could end-up being kidnapped and shipped to another country for ~~torture~~ interrogation.

By: Darknet

Darknet — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:49:32 +0000

Or if you do something really subversive like breaking a DMCA scheme…

It does sometimes scare me the amount of power the US have and it’s all self regulated, self approved power..

Just found a really interesting interview with McKinnon, will add it in the article.

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:41:31 +0000

Yeh well it was to be expected that Guantanamo Bay will serves as some trash-bin to send all repressive elements to. Regardless of what they exactly did, people can always get sent over there because they were a threat to national security, or some other B.S. concept.

Today you’ll end up there if you crack into not-properly protected networks — tomorrow if you signed that on-line “Stop The War and Impeach Bush” petition.