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Originally Posted by MargaretR
He exposed gaping holes in US security. They got rather angry about that, but really they ought to be thankful that he did, because now their systems have been made less hackable.
The crime here was the stupidity of the yanks in having a hackable system.
When you leave your back gate open, and a dog wanders in and poops, do you blame yourself for negligence or do you demand the dog be caged?
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Being mentally ill if aspergers is really a mental illness? Should not stop him going to court - if you asked me to hack into any computer I wouldn't have a clue but it would take some study to do so.
Anyway if someone murders someone and they are mentally ill, they are not let off, just because of that fact. As Neil says he should go to court in this country and a court should take everything into account.
He knew what he was doing because he apparently left this message on one of the computers;
I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels … 
