I love how the narrative has quickly turned from "the government is going after the wrong guy" to "everyone in infosec has a past"
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Not sure this is as hard a concept as you're trying to make it. Acting in an official capacity isn't like acting in a personal capacity.
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Did you read that post? Of course it is. If Belan can be tried for doing FSB work so can NSA's hackers, and especially so can Booz's hackers
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So what? If a country decides to try NSA hackers, that doesn't magically put hackers at NSA in a similar category to carders.
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And if we charge their IC hackers, it's ultimately a foreign policy, not a criminal justice action, even if we like to pretend it's not.
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Karim Baratov finds that a really quaint claim, as he's in custody in SF right now, being treated as a criminal.
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POWs may live in camps with guards and barbed wire perimeters, but that doesn't make them morally equivalent to criminals either.
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Which is entirely unrelated to this thread. I get you want to make a moral distinction. Talk to DOJ NSD, which broke that distinction.
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If Russia starts arresting TAO hackers and we start prisoner exchanges, maybe then the distinction will be more obvious.
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