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so are there any repercussions for hacking US entities from switzerland ? Not that I think there ought to be.

The Swiss tend to make your life vaguely difficult by confiscating your computers every now and then at the request of the US.

You won't be extradited though.

The Swiss could maybe prosecute domestically, but its not (currently) in the public interest to do so.

Even then the sentences are reasonable while in the US you go to jail for just as long as if you killed someone in some cases.

The ATT "hacker" got 41 month for guessing URLs. US sentences are insane.

Isn't weev hiding in Transnistria after he got released on a technicality that allows them to go back after him in another district court or something?

I was thinking the courts ruled he got tried in the wrong jurisdiction so prison had to release him. He basically GTFO'd before they had a chance to refile and is hiding in an unrecognized territory inside Moldova.

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