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Hacker 'Guccifer,' Who Uncovered Clinton's Private Emails, To Be Extradited To US (rt.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the compulsive-need-to-be-famous dept.

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.

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  1. This site is so biased now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Clinton's improper use of a private email"

    No. If that was true, the FBI would have charged her long ago.

    1. Re: This site is so biased now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly. She already confirmed she did nothing wrong.

    2. Re: This site is so biased now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    3. Re: This site is so biased now! by PPH · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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    4. Re: This site is so biased now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > 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?

    5. Re: This site is so biased now! by haruchai · · Score: 5, Funny

      "The republicans can't have it both ways" - you have a LOT to learn about Republicans.

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    6. Re: This site is so biased now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. just remember... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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