Knowing that the odds are stacked against him, the infamous "UFO Hacker" (who is actually a Scotsman by the name of Gary McKinnon) has finally accepted defeat in his desperate battle to impede his approaching banishment to America. More to the point, the recently instituted United Kingdom Supreme Court rejected the forty-three-year-old UK resident's appeal and is not willing to hear his case at all. As such, McKinnon has used up his last local channel for judicial reprieve as his extradition to U.S. authorities draws ever nearer.

According to the judges, the cause for McKinnon's application rejection was that the case simply doesn't involve any legal matters pertinent to public consumption. The UK Supreme Court, which was recently established as part of the 2005 UK legal system reform program, is now the highest judicial power from the House of Lords. However, it only started sessions on October 1, 2009. The infamous UFO Hacker is charged with hacking and breaking into the machines of countless U.S. government installations from 2001 to 2002.

McKinnon has confessed to authorities that he has illegally broken into the computers of the U.S. military, the Pentagon, and NASA in order to look for top secret UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) data and information (hence his media-dubbed name). The autistic (he's a diagnosed Aspergers Syndrome sufferer), middle-aged man claims that curiosity was what drove his criminal actions, while American prosecutors maintain that what he did was one of the biggest military data breaches of all time.

Due to the turn of events, McKinnon's lawyers are presently mulling over their remaining choices, which includes presenting the case once more at the European Court of Human Rights (the Strasbourg court had rejected the appeal by McKinnon's legal representatives way back in August 2008).

Fortunately for the UFO Hacker, he has the support of local celebrities, human rights groups, and many politicians spanning different parties. Their main contention appears to be the belief that the UK government is using McKinnon as a scapegoat of sorts in order to uphold a dubious arrangement with the United States. If he is to be tried in America, the hacker faces a potential sentence of seventy years imprisonment.