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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by armitron on Friday April 26, 2019 @12:06AM (#19754783)
That's exactly what he did, registered the domain on a whim with no actual facts to back his decision. I think that much is obvious.

My reading of the situation is also based on additional data that's public if you care to look. His skill level and intuition can be extrapolated if you watch a few of his youtube videos. Or if you happened to talk with him on IRC. You'd realize he's little more than a script kiddie.

Hutchins is not what he has been portrayed as by the media.

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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by cjbprime on Friday April 26, 2019 @12:14AM (#19754823)
It seems weird to simultaneously argue that he shouldn't get a pardon because he's a dangerous hacker, and also that when he was being a dangerous hacker he was just a skill-less script kiddie kid.
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Re:Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon by armitron on Friday April 26, 2019 @12:16AM (#19754829)
There are lot of script kiddies in the malware-for-profit business, it doesn't take a lot of skill really. He's not at the bottom of the barrel but he's definitely not very far from it.
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