British hacker may face trial in US

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The British man US authorities call the �biggest military hack of all time� may lose his fight against extradition to the United States. Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking into nearly one hundred US Army, Navy, Air Force, and NASA computers just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The World’s Clark Boyd has the story.

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