Technology17.10.2009
Hacker has two weeks to appeal
The Home Office said Saturday that it won’t surrender McKinnon to the U.S. for 14 days, to allow lawyers to make an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against his extradition.
Earlier this month, the High Court ordered that the 43-year-old McKinnon should be extradited.
U.S. prosecutors accuse McKinnon of hacking into dozens of computers belonging to NASA, the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Department of Defense shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. They have spent seven years seeking his extradition from Britain.
McKinnon says he was looking for evidence of UFOs
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