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A comment on Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech".

Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" by banku_brougham on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:38AM (#14926336)
The confusing part for me is I thought malware was an establish (albeit evil) business i which the US govt and many others did a brisk business. For example Gamma Group [1].

So is this just someone without the right connections?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Group

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Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" by grugq on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:10AM (#14927552)
If you sold 2000 glocks to the police you'd be fine.

If you sold 2 glocks to MS-13, you'd have problems.

It is someone without the right customers.

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Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" by jlborxes on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:31AM (#14927635)
The govt is not against malware, the govt is against people making money and not sharing.
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