Arrghh! this dudes a legend!

conceptually I find it strange that someone can face prison for messing around on a computer. He didn't use violence or threaten anyone. More importantly he did not sell sensitive information.
If the system did what it should have done he could not and should not have done what he did.
Surely it is the software security of the Pentagon that should be held in contempt.
The spinelessness of our authority does not come as a surprise. If I could, I'd love send him to the safe house of Cuba, and give him a commodore 64 to see how much damage he could do for laughs.

NB I'd fucking kick his arse at Street Fighter 2

Special relationship? bullshit.
The Ironic thing is that the US never co-operate with UK legal requests.
The biggest issue in the McKinnon case is not the extradition treaty however but the fact that the US have been caught with their pants down and are looking for revenge rather than proportional justice*

A+