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posted by martyb on Saturday September 17 2016, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the on-extraditing-Love dept.

BBC reports:

An autistic man suspected of hacking into US government computer systems is to be extradited from Britain to face trial, a court has ruled. Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and the country's missile defence agency. Mr Love, from Stradishall, Suffolk, has previously said he feared he would die in a US prison if he was extradited.

Also at Ars Technica , The Guardian , and Reuters . Here is the judgment against Love (PDF).


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday September 18 2016, @12:37PM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday September 18 2016, @12:37PM (#403346) Journal
    "it's quite clear you have no idea what you're talking about."

    Quite clear is it? That your final answer?

    "There's plenty of precedence for people being tried in other countries for things they did abroad."

    There's some and it's been a source for serious concern. We don't need more.

    "The US regularly tries it's own citizens for bribing foreign officials."

    That's not the same case at all. That's a US Citizen in the US doing something against US law. Even if he can prove he wasn't in the country at the moment the bribe was paid he would certainly have had to take some actions inside the US to facilitate it.

    "There was that guy in BC that was prosecuted for sending pot seeds into the US using the mail."

    Emery et. al? They cut everyone else loose very quick and even he wound up with a plea. A great case study in malicious prosecution, btw. The pleas reached themselves demonstrate that the base charges were brought in bad faith.

    "Secondly, how precisely do you enforce the law if people are allowed to break it by locating themselves overseas?"

    As I do not fetishize control of other human beings behavior, I feel no need to 'enforce the law' per se. Some laws are surely necessary, but I'm having a hard time thinking of one that doesn't have a physical component. And I am not a fan of thoughtcrime.

    "I don't expect to be arrested for badmouthing the king of Thailand here in the US as I have no reason to believe that this server is in Thailand."

    You don't know where this server is, you aren't supposed to need to know, and anyway all we need is 1 reader in Thailand and a sufficiently powerful official with a grudge to see this tested.

    "But, if I broke into a server in Thailand to post graffiti on their websites, that is something that should lead to the possibility of being extradited. "

    Again, where do you find these transcontinental crowbars? How is it possible for you to 'break into' something without ever setting foot on the same continent where it exists? Why do you do such violence to the language rather than saying clearly what you mean?

    "Cracking and malware are largely a problem because certain nations don't have or enforce laws against the activities when directed at third party nations."

    Ah. We may have just found the key to your confusion.

    This is complete and utter bullshit.

    These things are problems because commonly used software is insecure by design.

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