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Geek or Public Enemy #1 35 Geek or Public Enemy #1 35 Deluded geek or public without authorisation computers belonging to WHO IS SUE STORM? WHO IS SUE STORM? Deluded geek or public enemy No 1? the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of enemy No 1? Defence and Nasa, and six computers belonging to a number of private businesses." Through the power of angelic guidance, Just days later he was arrested on behalf Sue Storm has created an unparalleled of the Americans at the flat in north London connection with people around the world. As which he shared with his then girlfriend. The the founder of Angelight Productions, she has fight against extradition, with McKinnon free enlightened and uplifted countless people for on bail, has been ongoing ever since. the past two decades. Sue Storm has been on He is accused by the Americans of 1500 radio and television shows. Her TV hacking into more than 90 top-secret military Program A Visit With The Angel Lady received and Nasa sites, offences which he has constantly rave reviews. Now as the host of an internet denied. radio show, Angel Talk, Sue Storm sends the But last Tuesday, his campaign to stay in message of the Angels around the globe. Her Britain was dealt a severe blow when the High numerous accomplishments as a prosperity Court in London ruled he could be sent across consultant, international author, inspirational the Atlantic for trial. Lord Justice Maurice and speaker and angelic advisor have established Mr Justice Goldring stated they could not find her as one of the most respected and admired By Richard Elias By Richard Elias any legal grounds to refuse the extradition consultants today. The Angel Lady is best known for her Scotland On Sunday Scotland On Sunday application but added, however, that they had a "degree of distaste" for the way the American incredible gift that allows her to bring forth THE question posed by the film poster authorities had handled the situation. information from Angels. The ease with which Sue Storm receives messages for immediate asked: "Is it a game or is it real?" McKinnon's legal team is now preparing application is amazing. Her knowledge and The year was 1983 and the movie was a final appeal through the House of Lords to expertise cover a broad range of areas. WarGames and it told of a bored high school prevent their client from being extradited but Sue Storm's first encounter with Angels student called David Lightman who the immediate future looks bleak for the 41- was at the age of eighteen months when she saw inadvertently uses his computer to gain access year-old. to the United States' nuclear programme. The Scot has never denied accessing the them flying overhead during a near-death Once logged in, Lightman, played by Matthew military computer sites from his London flat but experience. From that time on she has been able Broderick, is asked to take part in a game his defence is he was looking for evidence of to see, hear, and feel the presence of Angels. In between the two world superpowers but it soon UFO activity which, according to him, the particular, Archangel Michael has been her becomes apparent he is triggering Armageddon. Pentagon had deliberately suppressed. personal guide since childhood. With his help Sitting in a north London cinema 24 He said: "I wanted to find out stuff the she has taken her unique gift out into the world. years ago, a teenage boy watched the movie, government would not tell us about." fascinated. It created in him a burning desire to This interest in UFOs goes back even SUE learn about cyberspace and to understand every further than his trip to the cinema 24 years ago. SUE aspect of the then relatively-new phenomenon. McKinnon spent the first six years of his STORM But today, Gary McKinnon probably life in Glasgow but his parents split up and he STORM wishes he had never paid his entrance money moved with his mother and stepfather to for the movie. London. THE He is awaiting extradition to the US, It was his stepfather who was to open THE ANGEL LADY accused of being a cyber-terrorist and the the youngster's mind to stories of spacecraft and ANGEL LADY world's most notorious military computer alien beings. He had been raised in hacker. US officials claim he made more than Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, a spot which UFO When Suw Storm is on The ‘X’ Zone, 50 alterations to top-secret computer aficionados from around the world claim is an people from the ‘X’ Zone Nation hear programmes in 2001 to 2002 that cost them $1m alien spacecraft hotspot. what their Angels have to say and get to correct. McKinnon became hooked on science an Angel Affirmation. For a one to If convicted the softly-spoken fiction and, by the age of 14, armed with the one private consultantion with Sue Glaswegian, whose online name was "Solo", computer his parents had bought him, he began faces spending the rest of his life in a to experiment. Storm visit her website and check The maximum-security jail as well as being hit with The catalyst for his later successful ‘X’ Zone Radio Schedule for her next a $1.75m fine. attempts to hack into some of the world's most visit. The most-likely destination is a cell in secretive programmes was, he says, WarGames, www.theangellday.net Red Onion State Penitentiary in south-west prompting him to spend more and more time sat www.theangellday.net Virginia. Located in the town of Pound - alone, smoking cannabis, trying to emulate what population 1,089 and a place where they Broderick had done on the silver screen. recently banned dancing because it "entices sin" McKinnon has always denied being a - the jail is one of two 'Supermax' prisons in the hacker - despite admitting voraciously digesting People in Titusville, Orlando and state and has infuriated human rights the Hacker's Handbook, a notorious self-help Mims, Florida campaigners with its ultra-harsh regime. guide to exploring the limits of cyberspace, as a Listen to According to a recent report, it "restricts inmate teenager. He prefers to describe himself simply The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show movement and activity to a far greater degree as a "computer nerd". with Rob McConnell with Rob McConnell than other maximum security jails". His defence is that many of the sites he One ex-inmate recalled: "Upon arrival, I visited, despite holding top-secret government on alkStar 840 AM was told that I was at Red Onion now and if you documents, had little, or in some cases, no, T TalkStar 840 AM acted up, they would kill me and there was security systems in place. nothing anyone could or would do about it." But one of the major problems facing Although 14 individual states have claimed McKinnon and his defence team is the timing of McKinnon hacked into their computers, the his hunt. When he was scouring confidential state of Virginia has taken the lead in the case. sites, America was reeling from the immediate Paul J McNulty, the US Attorney for the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. eastern district of Virginia, issued the indictment against McKinnon on November 12, 2002, stating he had "accessed and damaged (This Story is Continued on Parge37)