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A U. K. man, who claimed he was looking for UFO files lost his appeal not to be extradited from the U. K. to the U. S. to face trial and if convicted could face up to 70 years in prison.

The man admits he gained access to 97 computers from the bedroom of his girlfriend’s aunt’s house. He claims of he should not be prosecuted or extradited to stand trial is the fact he was able to access the computers “motivated only by curiosity and because of lax security”. That ole “excuse” of it is not my fault I was able to get in, it is their fault for not protecting the computers and servers better appears to be falling on deaf ears.

The US government says he stole passwords and deleted files. They have won the right to try him in the U. S. and he is expected to be extradited from his home country to face trial here in the U. S.

I wonder what would accessing an email server because the security did not prevent you from doing that from the luxury of your home, and stealing emails and in some cases passwords/identities from up to almost 50 accounts on an email server will play out? We shall see. My personal prediction is that it might not be what they did to Rose Speaks.com that. One of the worse things, in my opinion, was posted publicly in the last few days. It involved the unauthorized breach into an email account not connected to Rose Speaks.com, but sent from a politician’s government email address, which simply elected to “opt-out” of an email newsletter. This was from a site that happened to be on the same email server that houses Rose Speaks.com but was in no way connected to Rose Speaks.com. I think that might not be forgiven so easy. What are your thoughts, is it the person who “took the information because the security to too “lax”, or the people they are saying were “responsible for the lax security” fault?

The U. K. man admits he acted alone. In the breach of the 50 accounts on one email several people have admitted in participating, “just because they could and the security was too lax to prevent it”, is that a conspiracy?

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August 28, 2008
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