British Hacker using Aspergers as a defence

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I don't think the English would want to punish him at all. They want to shelter and protect him.

Technically, this guy trespassed American areas of cyberspace while phsyically he hadn't left Britain. Cyberspace isn't navigated the same way one navigates physical or "meat-space."

So this is indeed a pickle, isn't it?

How could a valid compromise be reached?

Maybe his computer and equipment should be confiscated by local authorites and his future activities in cyberspace be monitored? Maybe all hackers, if caught with their hand in the till, should be forced to register with the gov't. in lieu of punishment.

Perhaps their own countries laws applied to them in terms of physicial punishment (jail time/community service etc) and your idea applied in cyberspace slowmutant?

People like him who use asperger's as an excuse for his own blatant wrongdoings make me and all other aspies look bad.

Punishing him virtually would have little effect seeing as how he exists in the physical world and not like Jobe Smith the Lawnmower Man.

Regular prison for an ASD might well constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Its also hardly apt.

I am way more concerned about how piss-poor american security is.

Maybe they should think about giving him a job?

Exactly how much jurisdiction should the US have over British citizens? Very little, given the atrocious abuses of the criminal justice system it perpetrates, and the sheer sulking that occured back when Britain had jurisdiction over there.

I think perhaps we should rethink the special relationship as regards military intel. After all, if the french can be excluded from briefings because they are a direct line to Baghdad, then maybe the US should be exluded from briefings in case vital intelligence ends up in the public domain of a seperate sovereign state.

Of course, the fact that America spies on us that means that america itself is in breach of British data protection laws... so y'all best come over here and get to the courthouse...

There is a hacker, hes British, and he cracked wide open sensitive military systems.Subsequently American Military Networks are quite obviously compromised. Thus we as a a nation need to be very careful what sensitive information we share with this compromised security risk. If Joe Bloggs from Chipping Sodbury can do it, then anyone can.

As for shipping people over to the states to be tried... we are a Sovereign nation, with our own laws governing these areas and practices. If and when a crime has been committed by a British citizen on British soil, he should at least retain the right to be tried in his own nation, by a jury of his peers if need be.

Apparently our laws aren't good enough for Uncle Sam though.

On the subject of his ASD... in some cases autism is not just an excuse, but an actual defense. Maybe not in this case, but it should be taken into account when looking at potential punishments. The British prison system is hardly the most autistic-friendly place in the world, so comparatively the American prison system is liable to be a death sentence..


I'm not flaming America here... I'm just saying that as a nation state they should probably stop throwing their weight about and start looking at the crux of problems.. in this case, utterly piss poor internet security.

Bah!

while the security was down al- queda could've looked at military plans