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FYI, 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…
Why are people in this thread so outraged without knowing any of the facts? For all we know there might be a legitimate charge on which he was arrested. As per him being untraceable, if he was not read his rights then the FBI just jeopardized their own case. If no one knows where he is, it's more likely that it's what Marcus wants at the moment rather than what the FBI wants.
Why are people in this thread so outraged without knowing any of the facts? For all we know there might be a legitimate charge on which he was arrested. Because US law enforcement have consciously chosen, over the past couple of decades, to engage in activities that make them "the bad guy". It's just abductive inference and a simple bayesian prior at this point. Nobody is reaching any absolute conclusions yet, but a…
"US law enforcement is the bad guy, therefore any given choice they make is probably evil" is fiction-logic. It works in movies, not in real life.
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Many, many countries are brutal, totalitarian dictatorships. Doesn't mean we have an excuse to sink to their level. I couldn't imagine this story coming from, say, Germany or Sweden.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-piratebay-idUSKBN0E... https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/22/julian-assange-swede...
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne...
> Among the issues discussed during the session:
> [...] excessive length of pre-trial detention [...] wide use of solitary confinement
As 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…
FYI, 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…
This is really flippant, but you could just generalise to "avoid the US."
FYI, 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…
According to the US definition of cybercrime. So you could be totally innocent in your country, and have done nothing directly in the US.
insightful thread also delving into wannacry: https://twitter.com/3L3V3NTH/status/893181445824446464
edit: there is a nice HN discussion already about the bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918545
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There are absolutely details: > Motherboard verified that a detainee called Marcus Hutchins, 23, was being held at the Henderson Detention Center in Nevada early on Thursday. So at least we know he was detained. This one relies on a friend, so presumably it's "less verified" as far as these things go: > A few hours after, Hutchins was moved to another facility, according to a close personal friend. I don't know if Mo…
Detained for what? You don't know. I mean, I agree, detainment isn't usually the way to make friends, but those are not specific details of the incident.
I'm curious what charges are being brought against him. For all we know, this detention is completely unrelated to WannaCry. We shall see.
He ran a carding forum in the past, malkit.ws and then malkit.su. Virustotal passive DNS shows that it was hosted for a time on the same server as his old irc, irc.voidptr.cz https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/188.190.99.148/info...