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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by rurban on Saturday August 05, 2017 @02:26AM (#14934475)
Given his life style at Vegas and that he didn't even attend the conference, just went there for partying and meetups, the "chills" are different to the "chills" one would assume from reading the headline. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4762608/Marcus-Hutch...

They just caught another criminal hacker who was stupid and earned a lot of money from his Kronos hacks. The one chill is how stupid was he? Lamborghini? The second chill is how naive have I been when reading about the lone hacker fixing WannaCry and saving the world from his mom's house bedroom?

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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by petepete on Saturday August 05, 2017 @06:29AM (#14935091)
If you're not from the UK, just take everything the Daily Mail prints with a gain (well, a handful) of salt.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by rurban on Saturday August 05, 2017 @09:57AM (#14935710)
Yes, I know the reputation of the Daily Mail. But there are too many facts in there. The mansion, the admittance, the lamborghini.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by snowwrestler on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:21PM (#14936432)
You've got to make sure you have all the facts though. Renting a $1,900 per night mansion looks a lot less extravagant when that cost is being split by 7 people.

And renting a fancy car for a few days might not be that much money. I recently used Turo to rent a gold Cadillac for a trip up to Marin County. Pretty nice, huh? It cost less than renting a Nissan Altima from Budget. (I checked.)

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