Pink Floyd lead singer backs British hacker in song
A British hacker who has been fighting extradition to the U.S. for the past seven years is getting support from some well-known musical backers.
David Gilmour, singer and guitarist for the iconic English rock bank Pink Floyd, has already recorded a song for an upcoming CD that's now being put together to support Gary McKinnon, 43, according to Janis Sharp, McKinnon's mother. McKinnon is an admitted hacker who in 2001 broke into computer systems in the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S. Army.
McKinnon, who was an unemployed system administrator in the U.K. at the time of the 2001 hack, has been using a series of legal maneuvers and appeals over the past seven years to fight extradition to the United States.
