Reply to post: Re: Time to stop this

Here's how police arrested Lauri Love – and what happened next

sdunga

Re: Time to stop this

Not as simple... Legally speaking in this things it applies the legislation of both countries, because the data was store effectively in US, so to data it applies the US law, even if whoever is in another country.

Put into a perspective, when a drug cartel executes someone in any country being based in another, should it be judged based on Colombian or Mexican law, if 30 people were killed (by hypothesis) same applies with terrorism acts.

Depending on the findings 99 year may or not be exaggerated, recently several cases of cyber crime have been known like the attack of a water supply in some city and changing the chemicals on the water supply, potentially this can kill or injure thousands. And I can keep giving examples that shows the complexity of these issues.

One thing is for sure, whoever goes into this path knows or should know the risk, I didn't saw him denying he did something, and such a encryption, is a bit obvious the guy may have something to hide. The guy may not even have bad intention on his acts and the majority of the hackers do not have them, otherwise the world would have already exploded and went to a chaos. Still he knew the risks, these are clever guys, so...

Most likely there may be some abuses as well from authorities and excesses, US are well known for that and UK are no different, just less competent. Regardless the funny part on this, is that this proves that authorities had a very week case and aren't prepared for acting in these situations, the UPS delivery thing arrest is a joke from the movies, and after all the theatre, 3 years after they still have nothing... This is the real sad story.

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