Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by notatoad on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:02PM
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> most probably is someone clearly known to the DOJ
not probably. the first line of the indictment is "Defendant [redacted] used the online aliases [redacted].
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912549-MalwareTechB...
(That co-conspirator is unnamed to us, but most probably is someone clearly known to the DOJ).
The indictment itself is pretty bare. But an indictment isn't a trial; the DOJ will need to prove its charges to a jury with a considerable amount of evidence, and, as Orin Kerr pointed out last night, they have an uphill climb ahead of themselves, because the letter of the law is favorable to people who create and sell banking trojans.