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Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US

posted by takyon on Monday February 05 2018, @07:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the case-cracked dept.

canopic jug writes:

The UK high court has finally ruled on the extradition of Lauri Love, the Finnish-British student accused of cracking U.S. government websites. He will not be extradited to face trial in America. The court accepted both of the main arguments that there is no reason he cannot not be tried in England and that he might suffer serious damage to his health if he were extradited.

Source: Hacking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US

Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.
Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th

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  • (Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Tuesday February 06 2018, @03:59PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 06 2018, @03:59PM (#633891) Journal

    The sooner Americans get the notion through their head that the world is not our jurisdiction

    Committing crimes on US soil, even when you're in another country when you do it, is within US jurisdiction.

    and the better off the American populace will be because all that money we burn up creating terrorists by randomly bombing schools, hospitals, and weddings

    Yes, that's a loathsome thing, but what's "random" about it? Do you really think someone is throwing darts at a board or other random process, and then bombing what happens to be a wedding?

    could be spent on bridges, roads, healthcare, education, etc. at home employing people here.

    Let us note that ample amounts are already spent on such things, and one key problem of that spending has been that it made the services in question more expensive.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:37PM (#634010)

    Committing crimes on US soil, even when you're in another country when you do it

    Nope, you can't have it both ways. How can one both "commit a crime on US soil" and "not be in the country"?

    You could also say that the DoD was negligent in exposing its data to other countries, and that this particular freedom fighter just picked it up in England.

    • (Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:08PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:08PM (#634035) Journal

      Nope, you can't have it both ways. How can one both "commit a crime on US soil" and "not be in the country"?

      How can you ask that question when the story just demonstrated how it can be done. Computer networks allow you to commit crimes at a distance.

      You could also say that the DoD was negligent in exposing its data to other countries, and that this particular freedom fighter just picked it up in England.

      Blaming the victim. Modest degrees of negligence don't excuse crimes. You need something pretty epic, like Trump non-sarcastically inviting the world's hackers to give it a try or the DoD never persecuting computer intrusions for decades.