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One of the satisfying things about Lauri Love's extradition being denied is watching obnoxious American national security "thought leaders" getting mad that the US does not have jurisdiction in the UK and can't arbitrarily kidnap foreign citizens, like they do in the Middle East.
Dunno.
US still manages to kidnap terrorism defendants.
The big message should be why UK can't try people. Kronos targeted UK, not US. What the fuck is @MalwareTechBlog being tried here for?
Well, I did say "arbitrarily". Until the forum bar, the US-UK extradition treaty was extremely one-sided towards the US (and still is to an extent), there was very little possible grounds to challenge US extraditions.
Wasn't the forum bar in place before Minh Quang Pham (Vietnamese immigrant who worked on AQAP's Inspire for a few months) was extradited?
I'm not familiar with that case. I'm not saying the system is perfect, but this was an important victory that sets a precedent for other people that might find themselves in a similar situation to @laurilove.
It was pretty bad. He was detained when he returned to UK fr Yemen, wandered around for 6 months, then May tried to strip his UK citizenship, then shipped him over here.
The weirdest part of the case is that having Inspire is illegal in UK, but is not here. So it would arguably have been easier to prosecute him in UK.
It's the same for hacking too. US regularly has to bend laws to prosecute hackers, whereas UK's Serious Crime Act of 2009 explicitly makes basically everything illegal even common security research practices.
Well, they're making new stretches in your case. So you can take some pride that they're having to do EXTRA backflips.
Probably so that once I get out of this conviction I'll be sent home and they can try me again, because fuck MalwareTech.
You weren't brought here so you could surf year round?
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