There's a UK hacker diagnosed with AS that the USA are desperate to get their hands on, doing almost anything to get him extradited to them, and the poor guy is terrified he'll end up in Guatanamo Bay now as a terrorist because he hacked a lot of the military computers.
Now by hacked, I mean he had a look around, he and the experts all agree he did no damage, and imo, he's done the USA a favour by showing them how lax their security is, as Gary McKinnon, the hacker in question got past many checks by using the default passwords.
Now I only know of one person diagnosed with AS, but I think even if he only ends up in a US prison, he's going to be in a lot of trouble, he's not mentally fit to be shoved in a cell for the rest of his life, and the way the US are bending the facts to make him look like Osama's evil brother, frankly offends me.
Firstly they said he's possibly done $70,000 of damage, by 'looking' at their stuff, no wonder it costs so much to get into museums and art galleries nowadays, I didn't realise my eyes were wearing away the paintings. Perhaps they mean, 'oh no, we've been exposed as incompetent, and so we've got to spend shedloads upgrading security, oh its ok, we can blame the loony.'
Now they're claiming he's done over a billion dollars, I know there's a financial crisis, but even with inflation, this smacks of hyperbole.
Also, here's an example of AH I believe, he was first caught, when he was hacking into military computers, and took control of one while a user was in front of it, because he forgot about time zones. That shows that they can be very smart, but yet miss out on details that a 'normal' person would hardly even think about consciously. Not saying all AS sufferers are like that, but I'd say some are.
To me, he needs assistance and guidance, not the rest of his life in a cell in America. Hell given the right help he could be a real asset to our own military security.
Off topic, I can't understand why, when pirates and hackers and the like are caught, they're not offered a deal where they come and work for the good guys, either searching for weak spots in security, or showing how to make stuff less easy to pirate.