Kevanff wrote:
Imagine if I sent a bomb via the mail to someone who was going to use it to blow up something and enroute the postman got caught and given a severe punishment for having possesion of a bomb. Me the instigator of this event would be free to carry on my business
Even pretending that the postman would be arrested, in what fairytale land do you live where the guy mailing the bomb wouldn't be arrested if possible? If you're really worried about the guys who are distributing the drugs, press your government to find
them and send them to China as well. I'm sure the government there would love to have 'em.
This was, as stated above, a horrible analogy.
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Saying he broke US law is stupid, he is bound by the laws of the country he resides in not any others, you dont see people extradited from the US for drinking alcohol which is illegal in saudi do you?
You're honestly comparing breaking into servers on US soil with drinking in the UK and its effects on Saudi Arabia? Did you want to withdraw and rethink that point before more people respond to it?
As Poldaran notes, the actual crime is breaking into the US servers, which are located on US soil. The crime is committed at the keyboard end but the keyboard being in the UK doesn't make it any less of a crime against the US. To use your postman analogy in an intelligent manner, it's as though I mailed a bomb to London. The relevant part of the legal code is...
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Whoever [...] (3) intentionally, without authorization to access any nonpublic computer of a department or agency of the United States, accesses such a computer of that department or agency that is exclusively for the use of the Government of the United States or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, is used by or for the Government of the United States and such conduct affects that use by or for the Government of the United States;
He intentionally obtained unauthorized access to computers belonging to the US government and therefore broke US law. He was also silly eough to do this from a country that actually tries to keep amicable extradition agreements with the US instead of doing it from Russia or China like a sane hacker.