Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"
by tptacek on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:03PM
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This logic makes sense if you suck the concept of "intent" out of criminal law. Otherwise, not so much.
But also, please don't corner me into defending the prosecution here. I get that it's easy to do that; just make absurd statements about how law enforcement works, as other people in this thread have done, and I'll probably take the bait.
But really, I have no idea who any of these people are. I don't work in the part of this field that gives a shit about "the Kronos banking malware", I didn't follow "MalwareTechBlog" on Twitter, I'm faintly allergic to the concept of any twitter account with "Malware" in the name, and more than anything else I think that anyone who would write PHP code to help plant HTML trojans across a botnet needs to set the bar a little higher for themselves.
I do not have a strong opinion about whether this person should be prosecuted.
But also, please don't corner me into defending the prosecution here. I get that it's easy to do that; just make absurd statements about how law enforcement works, as other people in this thread have done, and I'll probably take the bait.
But really, I have no idea who any of these people are. I don't work in the part of this field that gives a shit about "the Kronos banking malware", I didn't follow "MalwareTechBlog" on Twitter, I'm faintly allergic to the concept of any twitter account with "Malware" in the name, and more than anything else I think that anyone who would write PHP code to help plant HTML trojans across a botnet needs to set the bar a little higher for themselves.
I do not have a strong opinion about whether this person should be prosecuted.