>law
>legally
You keep using these words but it causes circular logic as those are all defined by the same entity that is acting unilaterally.
The action the government took was not a "good" action by any moral standard. But it was perhaps the least worse action available all things considered. Can't just whisk people off the street in a foreign country or drone them over such matters, those options would be worse.
It's on like place 10 out of 180, which makes it one of the least corrupt places.
It also has some surprisingly non-boomer departments, like the Sovereign Tech Fund. Either way you need to celebrate police doing good things and immoral actors being exposed, it can only have good outcomes.
Perhaps it deters them, or deters the next generation of such hackers. Or at least it makes their life less enjoyable, which is fair since they were only able to afford their travels due to their illicitly acquired wealth.
The one that has just invested in Scala? In year 2026? There are many good things about Germany, but competence in tech is not one of them.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
It's not, in Germany we have separation of powers.
> The action the government took was not a "good" action by any moral standard.
Morals aren't binary. Morals have context.