Britain, America and extradition: Trial of an alien.
There is unease in Great Britain over the impending extradition of a British subject to the U.S. on computer hacking charges. According to U.S. prosecutors, between 2001 and 2002, Gary McKinnon accessed 97 American military and NASA computers, allegedly causing $700,000 worth of damage. Extraditio...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 392; pp. 51 - 52 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
August 8 2009
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