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Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
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Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#222As much as this article contains very little information,this sounds very much like something the US will do. Whenever someone has to be the butt of some global joke .....somehow the US has to be the one to step up. Taking someone into custody for 18 hours without giving the family or press any information. How different is this from Iran or North Korea? Two things could've happened here IMO. They asked for the domai…
>Taking someone into custody for 18 hours without giving the family or press any information. How different is this from Iran or North Korea?
Most countries don't give the press information. Why do you believe his family or a lawyer hasn't been contacted?
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#223No good deed goes unpunished. But why is DefCon still in the US? I think the creators of the conference might want to seriously think about holding it somewhere that isn't so hostile to pretty much everyone who attends.
>But why is DefCon still in the US?
Most of the attendees are US citizens. They will lose a lot if they move it. It's better to just host another one outside of the country (and I think there are already a bunch) for people that don't want to visit the US.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shouldn't we all avoid US conferences? Half the people have some day done something which in a generic way is "against US interests" (from a false name on Facebook to competing against a US corp to starting a petition or a secure app). I personally don't go to US conferences or visit US customers, simply because of TSA (same for Japan and China; Europe has a better track record). If you have a choice, it's not really…
Competing against a US corporation is not a crime and neither is a False name on Facebook.
Using a false name on facebook is against their ToS, is it not? There was a story within the last week about how violating ToS is arguably a felony in the US.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#225Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922563 adds significant new information (or at least I assume it does), the discussion can shift there now.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, he literally stopped WannaCry. Just because someone else could have stopped it, doesn't mean he didn't stop it. That's... just a fact...
You're mixing up could and would here. This was inevitable because of how WannaCry was designed.
If Newton had not discovered and articulated his 3 laws of motion when he did someone else WOULD have in the decades that followed. Is it an error to say Newton was the first to discover his laws of motion? By this definition how can anything be attributed to anyone?
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#227> "I've spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no record of Marcus being in the system. At this point we've been trying to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been taken," the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in the US he's been taken to and we're extremely concerned for his welfare." What the hell? How does s…
>What the hell? How does something like this even happen? Surely they can't just take somebody away and keep it a secret?
There's this little thing called the Patriot Act that Bush brought into law after 9/11 that allows the feds to do exactly this.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#228FYI, if you've committed any form of cybercrime in the previous 3 years (edit: the statute of limitations is 5 years for most federal computer crimes, as pointed out below), you should avoid such conferences in the US for exactly this reason. You probably aren't as smart as you think, and there may be a sealed arrest warrant for you. The FBI waits for these kinds of conferences to do exactly what they did here. Anoth…
Wouldn't it be better for everyone if US infosec conferences were hosted in Canada ?
Why do you believe that Canada offers better legal protections? I'm Canadian, but I have no idea what the situation is here.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're mixing up could and would here. This was inevitable because of how WannaCry was designed.
If Newton had not discovered and articulated his 3 laws of motion when he did someone else WOULD have in the decades that followed. Is it an error to say Newton was the first to discover his laws of motion? By this definition how can anything be attributed to anyone?
Do you attribute a car bombing to the person that set up the bomb or the guy that inevitably turned on the car and set off the bomb?
In this case WannaCry creators built a system that would inevitably be triggered within a few hours from the malware going live.
I think it is meaningless to attribute the WannaCry killswitch to him instead of the authors. If he hadn't registered the domain some other threat intelligence firm would've done it moments later.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indicted: "Hutchins, who is indicted with another un-named co-defendant, stands accused of six counts of hacking-related crimes as a result of his alleged involvement with Kronos. “Defendent Marcus Hutchins created the Kronos malware,”" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche...
Indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912520-Marcus-Hutch... He was supposedly selling the malware on Alphabay, of all places. https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/89318510973782016...
Given that the name is censored, I think that's probably referring to his supposed co-conspirator whose name is censored throughout the document.