Whilst awaiting the "reserved" decision of the Judicial Review of the Home Office's decision to deliberately ignore the Asperger's Syndrome aspects of the Gary McKinnon extradition case his legal team have applied for another Judicial Review.
This challenges the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions, not to prosecute Gary under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 here in the UK.
This would give him a chance of a fairer trial than in the USA, and, if found guilty, a more proportionate prison sentence, to be served in the UK. Prosecution for the same alleged offences in the UK, would take precedence over any extradition to the USA, as is usual under international extradition law.
The Oral Application will be heard on Tuesday 14th July 2009, at 2pm, by the same Judges who heard the Judicial Review on June 9th i.e. Lord Justice Stanley Burnton (a Lord Justice of Appeal) and Mr Justice Wilkie.
If they decide to hear this Judicial Review, they will do so that afternoon.
It would be extraordinary if these two eminent Judges were to publish their "reserved decision" on the first Judicial Review, before the 14th July
Elle Hart,Elec.Eng.Tech.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/17/heartland-gets-religion-on-security/
"Heartland is the middleman in card purchases. When customers swipe their cards at stores, the data on them are transmitted to processors like Heartland, which passes them on to the banks that issued the cards. The company announced in January that a hacker had managed to gain access to this card information for the 100 million transactions it handles each month.
Aside from the scale, the breach stood out from the hundreds of others reported each year because Heartland had recently passed a security audit."
Elle says :: Hmmmm, I wonder if the US Military used the same auditor as Heartland? And - what kind of sentence did this hacker get?
HBZR4 or just plain Betty Hill (B.H. - Z.R.4)
Some of the great hacks of all times including those going on today are done by the U.S. Military. Not all of them, of course. Certainly Gary is not secretly a Colonel in the N.S.A. Yet, the Pentagon is behind many of them.
I support transparency, that's what makes Gary different. He acknowledged his penetrations, even leaving behind little notes, before he was apprehended. Afterward, he continued his openess. Therefore, his reasons for the entries really don't matter. Any way you look at it, he did it for the truth.
Is any other hacker out there as honest?
Elle Hart,Elec.Eng.Tech.
Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10258634-83.html
"Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
The HSAC members will provide recommendations and advice directly to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
Moss' background as a computer hacker (aka "Dark Tangent") and role as a luminary among young hackers who flock to Defcon in Las Vegas every summer might seem to make him an odd choice to swear allegiance to the government. (Although before running his computer conferences, Moss also worked in the information system security division at Ernst & Young.)"
Nother one bites the dust::::::::::::::
Ethical Politics = Ethical Hackers
James Colquhoun
Funny is this site blocked from Australia?
Cannot access it except using tor
Elle Hart,Elec.Eng.Tech. replied to comment from James Colquhoun
There is an ongoing news ban about anything related to Gary McKinnon here in Canada for years now...wouldnt surprise me:::::::;
As a matter of fact :: my emails are to this site are being tracert through level3 ;( tor is a good idea
Stu
We don't hear much about Canadian hackers here in the UK.