UK Hacker Kook to Flee to Sealand?

Gary McKinnon, the world’s kookiest hacker, claims that he was offered “assylum” from the tiny micronation of Sealand.  Once there, I suppose that Sealand would have to change its name to Dorkland.

From PCW here:

Gary Mckinnon, who faces extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into military computers, has been offered asylum by the self-styled breakaway state of Sealand, it was claimed at the Infosec security conference today.

The “state”, a World War II fort known as Roughs Tower in the North Sea just north of the Thames, was declared an independent principality in 1967 by a former major called Paddy Roy Bates. He dubbed himself Prince Roy.

Mckinnon sat on a ‘hackers panel’ at Infosec to debate new changes to the Computer Misuse Act. The claim about Sealand was made by one of his fellow panellists, a “security analyst” identified only as Mark.

And according to the Torrentfreak blog, Sealand is not for sale to the Pirate Bay group because of concerns over copyright.  But sheltering a hacker is okay?

Previous McKinnon stories here.  Previous Sealand stories here.