http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4628575.ece



By David Brown

The Times

August 29, 2008



A UFO enthusiast who hacked into top-secret US military computers 

appealed to the Home Secretary yesterday to stop his extradition after 

losing a legal appeal.



Gary McKinnon is due to be extradited to the United States within two 

weeks and could face a sentence of up to 80 years in a maximum-security 

prison if found guilty. He admits to having accessed 97 US Navy, Army, 

Nasa and Pentagon computers in what has been described as "the biggest 

computer hack of all time".



Mr McKinnon, 42, an unemployed systems analyst, has said that he was 

looking for computer files containing details about UFOs and aliens. The 

US Government says that he stole passwords, deleted files and left 

threatening messages.



Mr McKinnon, of Palmers Green, North London, admitted carrying out the 

hacks using a computer in the bedroom of a house owned by his 

girlfriend's aunt. He says that he was motivated by curiosity and gained 

entry only because of lax security.



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