Blah, blah, I hate America, blah
There's a frankly idiotic anti-American diatribe going on here, as is always the case with McKinnon (and pretty much every other topic). The same crowd who wanted BT and Phorm hung, drawn and quartered for their behavioural caching think that a targeted take down of 9 domain controllers is "petty vandalism". And logs are just logs... if it's McKinnon destroying the evidence. Imagine if Phorm had tried to destroy it in addition to lying about it?
The worry I have is that he really wouldn't get a fair trial in the US by now. Arguably he never would have but after so much time has passed it is a given. US law is all about converting time into serious money and there will be several of the usual suspects with significant political capital invested in it, which is a fast track to a summary judgement. For these reasons alone, I don't think he should be extradited and should be tried in the UK. Hopefully a judge will find some way of commuting the maximum life sentence under English law into one more commensurate with the (obviously far more harsh) maximum 10 year one in the US.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
