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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by koheripbal on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:26AM (#22118297)
When a foreign government does something, the legal system is not the appropriate mechanism to enforce international norms.

It lacks both jurisdiction as well as enforceability.

There is no global legal system. We are not a united planet.

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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by ryanlol on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:01PM (#22119348)
You do have a point here, but it doesn’t hold up when the DOJ has such an extensive history of going after other state sponsored hacking.
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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by koheripbal on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:27PM (#22119728)
The DOJ goes after operatives and individuals - not heads of state or states themselves.
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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by ryanlol on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:55PM (#22120073)
According to this story MBS is an operative. If heads of state decide to become operatives, perhaps they should lose any protections that might normally be afforded to them.
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