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Hacker 'Guccifer,' Who Uncovered Clinton's Private Emails, To Be Extradited To US (rt.com)
schwit1 writes: Guccifer, the infamous Romanian hacker who accessed emails of celebrities and top US officials, will be extradited to the United States after losing a case in his home country's top court. Reuters reports that Lehel will come to the US under an 18-month extradition order, following a request made by the US authorities. Details of the extradition have not been made public, however. Marcel Lehel, a 42-year-old hacker better known by his pseudonym "Guccifer," achieved notoriety when he released an email with images of paintings by former President George W. Bush, including a self-portrait in a bathtub. He also hacked and published emails from celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Martin and Mariel Hemingway. Perhaps most notably, Lehel was also the first source to uncover Hillary Clinton's improper use of a private email account while she was Secretary of State, which the FBI is investigating as a potential danger to national security.
you are free to hack and extort from the little people, just don't mess with the people running the show or they will burn you alive. he would have been safer and richer if he just proliferated ransomware.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
If she did nothing wrong, then neither did he. If she actually did something wrong -- like exposing state secrets to Romanian hackers -- then she goes to jail, and he is a whistleblower, a Romanian hero who did a great favor to American people.
Of course she didn't have anything illegal in her emails.
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
I have a problem with them prosecuting a person in another country. Does that mean I am subject to foreign laws? This is all bullshit.
If you have a server then it's up to you to secure it. Your failure; then arrest yourself. Otherwise don't connect the server to the outside world.
And as general policy there should be no hacking laws. All traffic over a computer network is speech.
If I hook a bomb up to a computer and put it on the internet and someone hacks it who is responsible for the damage? Answer: The idiot that hooked the bomb up to the internet.
then she goes to jail
As if! She's far too rich and far too white to go to jail in the US.
If she did nothing wrong, then neither did he.
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. It depends on how exactly he unearthed details of Clinton's personal server.
From TFS:
Hillary Clinton's improper use of a private email account while she was Secretary of State, which the FBI is investigating as a potential danger to national security.
I suspect that, if Lehel actually got into the server, the hacking charges might be dropped in exchange for his testimony. His viewing classified data, or even getting that close as a foreign national will be used as the evidence of damage in a trial against Hillary. It goes from a potential danger where 'sensitive material could have been at risk' to an actual incident.
Have gnu, will travel.
We can only hope! She is a sociopath, a megalomaniac. I find it incredible that she runs for president.
Why is this surprising? Most people who run for President are megalomaniacs—they believe they are qualified to be President
> Hacking an account is illegal.
Oh, really? Then may I ask for the extradition of the entire NSA staff for hacking the accounts of French, German and Japanese politicians?
If she goes to jail then Powell and Rice should also go to jail for setting the precedent. Either the State Secretary's correspondence is private, or it's not. The republicans can't have it both ways.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
The FBI operates outside the USA.
As a professional systems administrator, The entire concept of a foreign government compromising my accounts or my companies private computing infrastructure because national security. That there is some special group of privileged people who are above the law, above morality, above redress is the very definition of a totalitarian regime .
Thanks to Snowden, we discovered Law Enforcement in the US were cheating via "Parallel construction" of court cases. Ever since then, many of their toys and tactics have been coming into question.
The reason this guy is being extradited isn't because he hacked some celebrities and the aristocracy wants revenge. It's because he compromised the accounts of a high ranking government official which can lead to compromising peace at the worst and at best cause trust and jobs to be lost. The spin here is also outrageous; they add in that celebrities line to get the bleeding hearts to follow suit on the retardation.
It depends. If Powell and Rice were also sending classified information using private email, then yes, they should also go to jail. If they used personal email for non-classified correspondence then they violated retention policy, not the law.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
She is holding Top Secret documents in an unsafe location. She was sending Top Secret documents across open networks.
He found out about it.
She has a team of top lawyers and the POTUS in her pocket.
He gets jail, she continues running for office.
Exactly. She already confirmed she did nothing wrong.
This is Guccifer's problem. If he would just come out and confirm that he did nothing wrong in a press conference then it would all go away.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
I work with classified shit everyday. And as much as you may want her to not be guilty as sin....she is. if I did just 1% of what she did I'd be in prison already without any chance of ever getting out. She thinks she can do whatever she wants and not be held accountable to the law like the rest of us. That isn't the way this system is suppose to work, there isn't one set of laws for the "important" people and one for the commoners, it's one set for all of us and I REALLY hope she goes to prison for life over this not because I hate democrats but because a message needs to be sent to ALL the people in upper government that they WILL be held to the fire for shit like this.