Liberty (advocacy group) a victory for Gary McKinnon, after a decade-long ordeal, as the Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced that she was refusing to allow Gary's extradition to the US on the basis that doing so would breach his Human Rights. Gary McKinnon was charged in 2002 of hacking into US military and NASA systems, but maintains that he was looking for UFOs and evidence of free energy suppression. Gary, who has Asperger Syndrome, could have spent up to 70 years in a US jail if convicted and it was argued by his lawyers in an appeal to the European Court of Human
Government hacking type of hacking operation a “Network Investigative Technique,” or NIT. In recent years, the government has increasingly turned to hacking as an investigative technique. Since 2002, the US government, in particular the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has employed the use of malware as a tool to aid in virtual criminal investigations. At the beginning of the use of this virtual virus, the main research targets were individual computers. Over the years, the FBI has adopted a form of hacking that allows attacking millions of computers in a single operation, which is usually authorized by only a single judge of