America want to get their hands on Gary Mckinnon, the hacker that got into a number of U.S. military computers.

Gary faces up to 60 years imprisonment in a foreign country.

Should Britain hand over Gary to the American government?
Take part in the poll and give your opinion.

Gary’s story.

McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, using the name 'Solo'. The computer networks he is accused of hacking include networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense, and the US Air Force.

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The MI5 must keep him for its own use. 

This is a tricky one isn’t it?

I agree with Diesel, Gary has only exposed their security flaws, better a Brit hacking in then someone from China for example, personally I think he did them a favour and they should pay him. 

GT, MI5 should use him I agree with that too.

Freddy you make some valid points, I bet if it was the other way round America wouldn’t give us the hacker either.

I don’t know about prisons in the USA but over here prisoners get TV and computers and many of the comforts of home, my gut feeling says the USA prisoners probably don’t. We are very soft on them in this country. 

Gary was a bit of a numpty for doing it, but quite a clever numpty, if only he had covered his trail better he might not have been caught.

Sixty years is the maximum he could serve, I hope for Gary’s sake the courts show some compassion and take into account the good thing he did in exposing the security flaws.

This just shows the utter madness of both our legal systems.
60 years is a joke. I agree MI5 (or MI6, foreign intelligence) should employ him.

This after the Lockerbie bomber was sent home on compasionate grounds 'cos he has cancer and is now trying to sue our government. He should still be rotting in a Scottish jail.

I was still under the impression mass murder was worse than hacking, obviously wrong.

This is an old thread but finally the UK government has made their decision.

Gary will not be given to the good old U.S of A

The correct decision I think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19968973

He was supposedly looking for info on UFO's (you know how the US government like to keep that stuff from prying eyes)!

The crime happened YEARS AGO!!

Yes, 60 years is ludicrous!

If anything the agencies in question should hire him to test against other exploits in their obviously weak systems!

He should set up a computer security company and team up with some other bright minds.

<Unless someone can pick your lock, you don't know how bad the lock's design actually might be!>

Some might remember Kevin Mittnick...some not...but he was quite the early hacker of the day who used the principle of "social engineering" to weave his web. Read more about him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick