Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by aphextron on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:17PM
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>The court case should be public, so we'll be able to judge the evidence ourselves.
Well this is still the United States, so by law it will be. People are blowing this way out of proportion as if he were disappeared by the secret police or something.
Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by mdpopescu on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:39PM
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He is not a dangerous criminal, who is going to suddenly kill hundreds of people if he's released. He could have gone back to the UK and the US gov't could have requested his extradition. The fact that they didn't (and my natural tendency to consider governments evil) hint to me that they didn't have that strong a case.
Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by baudehlo on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:32PM
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I think the worry here is that he now has no way of returning to the U.K. where he earns his income. He is stuck in jail in the US without reasonable access to a good lawyer (an appointed lawyer won't understand this case). His outcome looks bleak, guilty or innocent.
Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by flurdy on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:34AM
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Though as I understood it he was working remotely for a California based company. So not being in the UK is not the problem here.
Though I am not sure even if on bail if has access to his computers?
There's no reason he can't be both. We can both like him for stopping WannaCry, and dislike him for (if true) marketing/distributing malware based on Kronos.
Although I agree with your general sentiment, I'm confused as to why the security community is chilled by this. The court case should be public, so we'll be able to judge the evidence ourselves.