When he wakes up this morning, Gary McKinnon will be 72 hours from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his obsession with aliens.McKinnon, 42, from Enfield in north London, is accused by American prosecutors of illegally accessing top-secret computer systems in what they claimed in one legal document was ‘the biggest military computer hack of all time’.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/27/internationalcrime.hacking