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And that is fine, again, the so called Dread Pirate Roberts 2 was arrested and convincted in the UK mostly based on info the US handed to the UK. The problem is the US arresting someone who was. not. in. the. USA. when committing the crime (if he did).

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If you hack a bunch of computers in China, and China figures it out, and then you visit China, bet that China will arrest and imprison you. I don't see what's out of the ordinary about the fact pattern we're talking about here.

>The problem is the US arresting someone who was. not. in. the. USA. when committing the crime (if he did).

How is this a problem? if you cause material damages to Americans and you then go to the US the country is going to come after you.

Why would the US not protect its citizens to the best of its ability and prosecute people who harmed them, even if they harmed them from a place that wasn't the US. We're talking about global financial crimes, they don't know any borders to begin with.

If you kill someone outside of the US, and then you travel to the US, I'd be concerned if you wouldn't get arrested

As far as I'm aware it is not alleged that Marcus Hutchins caused material damages to Americans, it is alleged that he sold his malware to Americans.

I could be wrong, but I don't think the federal government has ever claimed that any Americans were infected with Kronos.

Not even that, he sold his malware, not to Americans specifically, or targeted at Americans at all, but he sold malware that someone subsequently used against US citizens.

It's a stretch.

Killing someone outside the USA unless they are American I dont think it would end up that way. Unless it was in a US Embassy.

I'd love to see someone name one US company that faced material damages as claimed in this comment. It really doesn't seem to be the case.

World police strikes again.

It doesn't matter because (some of) his victims were in the United States when he committed crimes against them.

Now that I'm thinking about it more, I'd be upset if they didn't arrest him while he were here.

Where is it alleged that some of his victims were in the United States? I'm sorry, I just can't find such a claim in the court documents.

In fact, the DOJ press release specifically names a bunch of countries that aren't the US https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/man-charged-his-role-cr...

>According to publically available information, since it was created, Kronos has been configured to exfiltrate user credentials associated with banking systems located in Canada, Germany, Poland, France, and the United Kingdom, among others countries.

Of course, given the nature of the malware it's very likely that at least someone in the US was affected.

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