Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/03/accidental-hero.html
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After Defcon, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry
HMSGoose
#7
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…
popobawa4u
#9
shortly after the Defcon/Blackhat conference
With allies like those, who needs enemies? Thanks for backing me up, folks!
LapsedPacifist
#11
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the Americans are the good guys because… um… they…
…look, they didn’t feed him polonium!
Yet.
Boundegar
#13
Well Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War, so the War on Terror means we can do whatever we want.
heckblazer
#16
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.