Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con

Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by maxander on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:37PM (#14921753)

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.

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by WillPostForFood on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:44PM (#14921850)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-piratebay-idUSKBN0E...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/22/julian-assange-swede...

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by sebcat on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:47PM (#14923104)

The first article is about Peter Sunde. Another TPB founder, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was treated even worse, being held in solitary confinement for months before his trial. Which sadly happens way too often.

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

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by strictnein on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:41PM (#14921815)

Pretty sure Sweden has a certain Australian that, according to many on this site, they've been very unfair to.

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by coldtea on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:55PM (#14921972)

That has been because of US pressure too...

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by pjc50 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:49PM (#14922523)

He isn't even in Sweden.

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Re:Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US... by strictnein on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:04PM (#14922681)

Yes, well aware of that.

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