Rick Hunter
Celestial
I don't have any sympathy for McKinnon, but there is no way in hell a stoned kid in another country should have been able to get into any US government database, let alone sensitive military databases. That's the real story, and the one the US government sought to distract everyone from with the huffing and puffing about prosecuting him. Under the circumstances, forcing extradition in this case because you are too chickenshit to stand up and admit to being incompetent is just stupid and counterproductive. The way bureaucracies work, the reaction would have been to institute many layers of security, supervision, and accountability in controlling data, which is what Americans should thank him for. He found those moronic mistakes before some creeps in Russia or China did. I am thankful for that.
This, 100%.