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A day has passed, and you are still alive! All! The United States is eager to extradite a hacker “of all times and peoples” US federal authorities intend to extradite a British man accused of hacking into approximately hundreds of computer networks belonging to American military and space agency NASA. On November 12, 36-year-old unemployed programmer from London Gary McKinnon McKinnon was charged in federal courts in Virginia and New Jersey with eight cases of computer fraud and damage amounting to approximately $900 thousand - taking into account the cost of reinstalling software on computers hacked by him. In the United States, McKinnon's actions are called the largest hacking of military computers in history. the whole story. It is known that over the course of a year he stole passwords, erased files and shut down computer networks at military bases from Pearl Harbor to Connecticut. Two of the computer hacks attributed to McKinnon involved the Pentagon. Another incident occurred shortly after 9/11 at a naval facility in New Jersey. According to the BBC, the personnel at this facility were so alarmed that as a result, a computer network of three hundred machines was shut down for a whole week. In total, MacKinnon managed to hack 92 military and NASA computer networks in 14 states, as well as 6 networks private companies and organizations. However, the authorities emphasize that the hacker never gained access toclassified information. They also do not believe that his activities had any impact any relation to terrorism. McKinnon is believed to have acted in alone. If the British man is found guilty, he faces up to imprisonment 10 years and fines of $250 thousand for each of the eight counts of fraud. At the moment, the largest hacker of military computers, known in on the Internet under the nickname SOLO, is at large, although he was detained briefly by the British authorities. According to US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty (Paul McNulty), the US will demand McKinnon's extradition, which is extremely rare happens during the investigation of international cybercrimes. (based on materials from the Associated Press, BBC, Izvestia newspaper) Source: www.CNews.ru ZXNet: 500:8462/1 ~/ <~ http://zx.fatal.ru/ Fido: 2:5057/21.93 /_ _> SkyNet: 71:170/21