An autistic man accused of hacking into US government computers can be extradited to the US from Britain to stand trial, a judge has ruled.

A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police’s cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took his extradition battle to Britain’s Supreme Court yesterday, arguing that sending him to Sweden would violate a fundamental legal principle.

THE MOTHER of computer hacker Gary McKinnon made an impassioned appeal to US president Barack Obama today after her son failed in his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to America.