After Defcon, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/03/accidental-hero.html

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His friends cannot locate him.

Not good, not good at all.

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Arrested by the “FBI”…

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This is America???

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Whoa, I think I know who was behind WannaCry!

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Well, the optimist in me wants to this that this was their cover for recruiting him into an intergalactic special ops force protecting the earth from extraterrestrial hackers, but…

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Rendered to a 3 Rd world client state for enhanced interrogation

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shortly after the Defcon/Blackhat conference

With allies like those, who needs enemies? Thanks for backing me up, folks!

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yes, same as it ever was.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the Americans are the good guys because… um… they…

…look, they didn’t feed him polonium!

Yet.

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Off to Gitmo

Well Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War, so the War on Terror means we can do whatever we want.

Who said that, anyway?

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Looks like he’s been indicted in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for creating the Kronos banking trojan (doc via Ars Technica).

ETA: an arrest on a sealed indictment would explain why everything was hush-hush.

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“Themed glow-in-the-dark Halloween dinners”

Well in that case, assuming it’s a valid charge: good

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Ooooh the British are devious :wink: