Can we trust America with our secrets?

What he did was a crime both in the UK and the U.S, but his actions brought some good.

This is a young man with a serious mental problem, but he was doing nothing more sinister than looking for proof of something in which he genuinely believes - evidence on NASA computers of the existence of alien life.

His actions constitute a clear crime in the UK, under the Computer Misuse Act. the potential punishment for which is five years in jail. There is a duty to prosecute in Britain, rather than in the U.S.

By prosecuting him here, it would make him safe from extradition, as he could not be punished twice for the same crime.

As usual the USA are up to their threat tactics, and are pushing hard for extradition. He would be treated a a terrorist, and could face export to one of the USA's foreign terror centres where he could be tortured.

So NO! We should not allow the extradition of this young man with his problems. UK doctors have warned that extraditing such a vulnerable adult to the U.S. (and possibly elsewhere) - and imprisoning him for possibly decades - would cause enormous and disproportionate harm. Indeed, they say it could even prove fatal.

I certainly think we can trust the US to a certain extent.

Look at it this way. In majority of cases it actually takes an individual to hack into American defence computers unlike in UK where the sensitive data is simply 'lost' by certain government employees and handed in by a member of a public. The next thing you know it is all over news headlines and is a great embarrassment to all involved.

As regards their system security, I can't comment too much since I am not an expert. But the facts speak for themselves surely? Every time an incident like this occurs a computer wizard is involved. If the security was inadequate you would hear about this constantly instead of occasionally.

I thought he had Asperger's syndrome. That isn't a serious problem. He's just a bit different.

I don't think we should share any of our secrets with them as they just use them, then claim they invented them all with their over inflated egos. Look at what happened in WW2. Even though Hitler wanted Britain to be his main ally or if we didn't get involved in him invading Russia through Poland, he said he thought Britain should police the rest of the world, Britain did the right moral thing by declaring war. It would have been better for the USA if there wasn't a super power in Europe as it would have been far more intelligent and powerful then the USA could ever be and Japan wouldn't have been able to build up such an army, but the USA just wanted to make a profit from it by making Britain send ships full of gold from South Africa in return for rusty old destroyers, so Australia with a population lower than most European cities could fight in the Pacific. When Britain was broke from buying arms from the USA and fighting the Nazis for years, the USA comes in right at the end and then employed the German V-2 rocket makers to design their rockets to the moon, and during the war they used our computer knowledge from people such as Alan Turing and atom bomb knowledge from Chadwick and Rutherford. All we do is help these idiots get over inflated egos, and we don't get anything back in return and have to listen to fat idiots going on about how they saved our ***. I suppose it's nice to know we're better people though, as we would never lower ourselves to act that pathetic and stupid. When the USA was in trouble, we didn't spend years trying to make up our minds what to do and think up a way to make a profit, we just go straight in despite groups in that country giving money to the IRA.

The person broke our laws. The belief in 'little green men' does not justify his breaking the law.

Since he committed a criminal act against us - how can you justify having a issue with our request to exradite him for trial?

And no - he did not hack into any classified systems.

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America and the UK have much that is common to both. Yes , we can and do.trust them ..........They do the same too.....

I wouldn't trust an American to wipe the drip off the end of my nose.

Yes, but if you'd like to think not, I'd only say that you have an attitude problem.

No.