World's Dangerous Hacker 's Reprieve

[liowkc]

Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who beat security at the Pentagon and NASA (and also dubbed as the world's most dangerous hacker by the US authorities), is still fighting his exgtradition to the US (where faces 70 years in jail) and has won a two-week stay to plead his case before the European Court of Human Rights.

[hwang]

Well whatever it is, he should not be given access to computers during his whole lifetime.Or maybe...Instead of putting him behind bars, why not they consider using his talent to help security companies improve the loophole the their system.

[Llamalord]

Why not convert him into a ethical hacker? Then everyones a winner

[hwang]

Yep. Educate and make use of his talent for the benefit of the community. Like he could help to trace source of malicious attack of other hackers and provide information how they manage to overcome the system firewall.

[liowkc]

This has been done in the past and I think results are pretty positive. But I guess you have to put him on a tight leash and constantly supervise him which may not be easy