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Lauri Love[*], in the UK, is facing extradition requests from three separate US court districts and a potential 99 year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in the online protests that followed the death of Aaron Swartz. Depsite no evidence offered by the US, the British courts have preliminarily agreed to extradition and his appeal will be on the 28th and 29th of November. Again, no evidence has been presented against him, but if he were tried in the UK he would be facing a maximum of 32 months in prison, not 99 years as the US is aiming for.
[*] According to Wikipedia's entry for Lauri Love:
Lauri Love is a Finnish-British activist charged extraterritorially with stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion.
Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:30PM (2 children)
Its already been unpacked for you:
That's it. That's all he did.
He Joined a protest (sitting in a chair) and posted some tweets clicked a button somewhere, posted a middle finger picture while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask or something.
Why can't our editors either reject or correct clickbait submissions like this? Or at least stop accepting submissions from ACs.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:47AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:15AM
No, he showed that the US military is severely lacking in IT security.
He was looking for UFOs FFS, not for military assets. He shouldn't be able to stumble on military assets when looking for UFOs. If he did, someone in the military screwed up big time. But more likely, he didn't, and it's just an excuse for the 99 years.