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The UK's extradition policies are a joke. There's no reason Britons who hack into US target from the UK can't be tried here in the UK under the Computer Misuse
by jackgavigan 11y ago
The UK's extradition policies are a joke. There's no reason Britons who hack into US target from the UK can't be tried here in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act. The only logical reason for extraditing someone for hacking would be if they went to the US to commit the crime, then returned to the UK before they could be apprehended.
The whole McKinnon debacle is an embarrassment on a number of different levels.
- youngtaff 11y agoThe could be prosecuted in the UK but the 'advantage' of extraditing them is the US can then apply all sorts of pressure to get a plea bargain. (quicker you plea, quicker you get to go home…)
- stevetrewick 11y agoBut that's not the only logical reason, it's just the only one you happen to agree with. It's not illogical to suggest that a person being tried for an offence should be tried in the jurisdiction where the injury occurred. Disagreeable to many perhaps, but not illogical.
- ryanlol 11y agoIt seems rather illogical when the requested state already has laws that prohibit such acts against foreign entities. The UK has already set what they feel are the appropriate punishments for these crimes, how is it logical that a UK resident that hacks a US company faces a significantly more severe punishment than say a UK citizen that hacks a Finnish company?
- ryanlol 11y agoHow many UK residents have been extradited to the US on hacking charges?