Updating stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity in computer security, worker identification, and smoking bans.

• Gary McKinnon, 40, a London hacker who the U.S. says caused $700,000 in damage to military computers by logging in and looking for evidence of UFOs, will be extradited to the U.S. He plans to appeal the extradition ruling by the Bow Street Magistrates Court. McKinnon fears that instead of facing trial in the U.S., he will be shipped to Guantanamo Bay instead.
• Meanwhile, back inside the Beltway, government computer security sucks, as I’ve reported on repeatedly, and some experts think that a federal law designed to enhance government computer security, the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, is actually getting in the way.
• One thing I forgot to mention when descirbing the Transportation Worker Identity Credential, which has been delayed for years by Congressional wrangling over pork-barrel politics, was the fact that workers will be required to pay for their federal ID cards, the cost estimated between $105 and $139 for the inferior, less secure pork-barrel card.
• And as previously reported, anti-tobacco groups will do anything possible to push through smoking bans, including misleading and outright lying about the science involved. They don’t truly care about non-smokers’ health, as it turns out; their true purpose is something more sinister. Michael Siegel has now exposed an American Cancer Society document which encouraged anti-tobacco groups to lie about the effects of secondhand smoke. (Hat tip: Hit and Run)