Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, will spend 20 years in a U.S. prison for providing material support to ISIS hackers by handing over data for 1,351 U.S. government employees. Ferizi obtained the data by hacking into a U.S. retail company on June 13, 2015. The hacker then filtered the stolen information and put aside records related to government officials, which he later handed over to Junaid Hussain, the then leader of the Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD). Hussain then uploaded this information online, asking fellow ISIS members to seek out these individuals and execute lone wolf attacks. Because of this leak, the U.S. Army targeted and killed Hussain in a drone strike in Syria in August 2015. Before helping ISIS, Ferizi had a prodigious hacking career as the leader of Kosova Hacker's Security (KHS) hacking crew. He was arrested on October 6, 2015, at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, while trying to catch a flight back to Kosovo. Ferizi was in Kuala Lumpur studying computer science.

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World Police?

[innocent_white_lamb]

From Kosovo, arrested in Malaysia, and now jailed in the USA.

Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?

Re:World Police?

[William Robinson]

We have picked up thousands of terrorists from Pakistan, and placed them in Guantanamo bay. What is your point?

A terrorist does not care who is being killed. I would love to see entire world coming together against them as a single unit, and detain them/punish them under some new international law (making sure nationality, original place of crime etc do not become obstacles.). Otherwise we will be spending time debating norms and they will emerge as winner.

Re:World Police?

[Zontar The Mindless]

He hacked into a US company and gave information about US citizens to an unfriendly power for the express purpose of hunting these people down and killing them. Kosovo was apparently content to let him keep flitting back and forth between there and KL indefinitely. The Malaysian authorities apparently weren't. He should be grateful to them for turning him over to the Americans. This means he'll very likely get to live to go home again eventually, instead of doing so in a casket, following an impromptu necktie party.

Why do you feel the need to make excuses for this character, anyhow?

Re:World Police?

[Anonymous Coward]

The system you speak of already exists; The ICC at The Hague. Curiously, the USA does not allow it's citizens to be subject to that system though.

One rule for some... another rule for others.

Re:World Police?

[unixisc]

Point is, Mr/Ms Jihadullah, that people who commit crimes against the US don't get a pass just b'cos they're in another country. Yeah, it would be nice if any country had that sort of overreach, but that would also behoove such countries to be as respectful of individual rights in the same way that the US is. But since they're not, somebody who violates US law can't be treated the same as someone who violates, say, Saudi or Iranian blasphemy laws or North Korean blasphemy laws against the Kims

Re:World Police?

[unixisc]

Jihadist enemies are there for a lot of countries, not just Israel, so you can get off that camel disguised as a high horse and educate yourself about what they do elsewhere. Aside from Israel, in this thread, I've pointed out how Kosovars/Albanians have issues w/ not just Serbs, but Macedonians as well. Sudan had a civil war that ended in South Sudan becoming a separate country. You have Boko Haram in Nigeria busy persecuting Christians wherever they can find them. Russia has its issues w/ the Chechens and the Crimean Taters, who in their day, conducted raids into Moscow: they weren't just fighting for 'self determination'. In Thailand, there is the issue of Malay separatists in South Thailand. In India, there is the issue in Kashmir, as well as India's own problems w/ its own Muslims. In Philippines, there is the MILF (no, not that MILF, but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front).

Oh, and the stuff about Israel supporting ISIS - you just made that up. Since the Syrian civil war started, Israel has maintained a stance of neutrality. On one hand, they have Assad, who is backed by Hizbullah and Iran, who they therefore don't like for that reason. On the other, there are the Syrian Sunni groups - of which ISIS is one - that originally were backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, which has ties to both al Qaeda and Hamas, which the Israelis are wary of as well. So they are on record as saying that they have no dog in this fight.

The internecine Muslim war - the stuff you mention about them being more interested in fighting fellow Muslims - has less to do w/ Israel backing them, and more to do w/ Shia-Sunni rivalry fueled by the Saudis. As it is, the Saudis and other Arabs always took a dim view of Syria's Alawite regime, and wanted to topple it. They got their best chance w/ the Arab Spring, and it was Saudi Arabia and Qatar that started by backing their favorite Sunni factions. Iran couldn't watch Syria collapse just as Iraq had been delivered to them, thanks to the stupidity of the Bush democratization policy, and so they and Hizbullah intervened. Had Syria fallen into the hands of any of the Sunni factions, Lebanon would have followed: there is no way a Sunni regime in Damascus would have tolerated a Hizbullah dominated regime in Beirut. So both Iran and Hizbullah had to prop up the Assad regime. In the meantime, ISIS had overrun northern Iraq and Eastern Syria, so that was a new headache for not just Iran and Syria, but Iraq as well.

The one good thing about the civil war in Syria is that it's locked up Jihadists from both sides - Sunni and Shia. You have Russia weighing in on Syria's side, which makes it easier to prevent not just an ISIS takeover, but a Sunni takeover as well.

20 years

[Anonymous Coward]

20 years is a little bit much for hacking, if I can say so myself.

No, it's not reasonable

[MikeRT]

Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?

Kosovo is a dysfunctional pseudo-state that exists in limbo between two states that don't really want that mess to be integrated into their polities: Serbia and Albania. Serbia is Orthodox Christian and Albania is an extremely moderate predominantly Muslim country. Neither of them are comfortable with ISIS supporters in their backyards. Malaysia sure as heck doesn't want ISIS supporters either. So what you call subservience is rather simply all of the parties involved except Kosovo effectively saying "this guy targeted the US Government, the US Government wants him and we sure as hell don't want him. Let the US Government spend the time and resources to clean this guy's clock."

Re:Reality

[slashrio]

My point?
My point is that the whole world seems to have problems with Duterte's death squads, in a souvereign country indeed, but don't blink an eye if Obama makes up his weekly kill list.
Of people in *other souvereign countries.

Muslims and Serbia

[unixisc]

Kosovo's people are the ones who have problems w/ not just Serbs, but Macedonians as well. It's not like Serbia is the lone bully there. Also, Serbia is expected to part w/ Kosovo on ethnic/religious grounds, but in the meantime, Serbs in Bosnia's Srpska region, which borders Serbia and who wanna join Serbia, can't b'cos the 'international community' is supportive of the Muslim peoples of the region - Albanians and Bosniaks.

Ironically, all the Jihadi attacks we've seen since 9/11 - had there been attacks from Serb terrorists, I wouldn't call it justified, but they'd at least have had more of a rationale than the Jihadi ones. However, the Serbs have never reacted that way against the US, despite being at the receiving end of a racist, anti-Slavonic campaign by primarily Western Europe, and the US as well. In the US war against Saddam, they supported the US, and in return, the US voted for the independence declaration of Kosovo. When one looks at things in this light, Russia did the only sensible thing by walking into Crimea - there's no way the US or Europe would have supported the aspirations of the Russkies there. But back to my point - one would have expected Serbs to be doing this stuff like hacking US sites in retaliation for the ugly way Serbia has been treated throughout this millenium. Instead, it's a Muslim Kosovar, who has every reason to thank the US but whose Islamic duty of hating the Infidels trumps all that, who does it.

Funny how US policies of appeasing people like the Albanians, Bosniaks, Palis (pressure on Israel to eliminate settlements), Saudis, Kuwaitis (attack on Chattanooga), Qataris tends to have a blowback effect

Re:What we should do to ISIS

[Opportunist]

Great idea!

Erh... umm... where should I send the nuke?

Re:But at least his god loves him

[Opportunist]

Every god in the history of mankind has always supported the ideas and actions of those that invented him. Gods and their "commandments" are by definition the mirror of the morals and ideals of the societies that create them.