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A few hours ago, a judge at the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, UK, ruled to approve an extradition request from the US government for Lauri Love, a hacktivist that has allegedly participated in the online protest called #OpLastResort, carried out by the Anonymous hacker collective. The protest took place following the suicide of Aaron Schwartz, while under federal indictment for allegedly hacking MIT's network. The #OpLastResort attacks resulted in the hacking of multiple US organizations, stealing and leaking data about personnel, and sometimes their financial information. Love faces 99 years in a US jail Love, 31, a Finnish-British citizen, allegedly participated in the attacks, according to a two-count indictment filed by US authorities on October 23, 2013. UK authorities arrested Love two days later, at his parents' home. The US kept piling charges on Love's case with another indictment on February 21, 2014, and another nine-count ... ...