The People v Gary McKinnon

The People v Gary McKinnon

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The People v Gary McKinnon

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Using the moniker 'Solo', Gary McKinnon broke into 97 US military and NASA computers from London over the course of 13 months, causing outages and deleting files. He also posted a criticism of the military's security on their website.

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