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Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI (go.com)
Bookworm09 quotes a report from New York Times (paywalled, alternate source): A man identified as a Russian hacker suspected of pursuing targets in the United States has been arrested in the Czech Republic, the police announced Tuesday evening. The suspect was captured in a raid at a hotel in central Prague on Oct. 5, about 12 hours after the authorities heard that he was in the country, where he drove around in a luxury car with his girlfriend, according to the police. The man did not resist arrest, but he had medical problems and was briefly hospitalized, the police said in a statement. The FBI said in a statement that the man was "suspected of conducting criminal activities targeting U.S. interests. As cybercrime can originate anywhere in the world, international cooperation is crucial to successfully defeat cyber adversaries." ABC News reports: "Prague's Municipal Court will now have to decide on his extradition to the United States, with Justice Minister Robert Pelikan having the final say. Russian officials, however, are demanding that the suspect be handed over to them. Spokeswoman Marketa Puci said the court ruled on Oct. 12 that the man will remain in detention until the extradition hearing. No date has yet been set. U.S. authorities have two months to deliver to their Czech counterparts all of the documents necessary for the Czech authorities to decide on the extradition request."
Blame anybody you want, it still doesn't remove the DNC taint that has been exposed.
Expect him to be double tapped in the head in an inexplicable accidental-suicide-robbery.
Obviously this validates the content of the e-mail as real, indicating multiple violations of federal and state laws by the senders, recipients and those discussed in the emails. Otherwise, there'd be no point in prosecuting this person, much less releasing this information on the day of the final presidential debate.
...overseas. Your country is demonstrating to other regimes that it is ok to abduct people in a 3rd country.
Seriously guys, it looks really pathetic when the Czech police arrest some one and US law enforcers make the public statements. The only comment from Czech authorities, baa, baa, baa (Czech dudes watch out for the gum boots, http://www.urbandictionary.com...). The Czech police did the arresting, than they should make the public statements and the FBI should shut the fuck up, otherwise it looks really bad, like baa, baa, bad and right now thanks to the purposeful immigrant crisis Europeans are pretty pissed off with the US government and NATO and you do not want to be so diplomatically arrogant and clumsy.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
i said the same think when i complained there were illegal aliens with Brittish accents managing the national parks Yosemite and Sequoia.
Prosecute who for what exactly?
Because all of the posts so far are about the Clinton email/DNC hacks, and because the summary is obviously trying to cash in on current political events to make this a big story by excluding this, here is a quote FTFA:
Read the emails, they violated Cuban sanctions, raped, molested, dodged tax, used charity money for their own legal settlements, bribed politicians with money they had from not paying suppliers, boasted about bribing politicians at rallys.... and on and on. And yet NEVER PROSECUTED.
Lets not be vague about, and hope people won't read the emails and just take our word for it. No, lets spell out the crimes, enumerate the many many many criminal offenses that Trump did. That's TRUMP. Because when you read Hillary's emails they're dull as fuck and reveal no crimes.
It's good to see you're accepting that Russian hackers did it, now when we find the link to Trump will you finally accept that you're siding with a foreign power to seize control of your own country?
Trump the traitor to his country?
You mean the taint, I summed up in this comment header? Because that's the takeaway here. Trump encouraged Russian hackers, Trump benefitted from their attempts to interfere. He met Putin and denied it, he's received gifts from Putin and denied it, his company has extensive commercial ties to Russia.
“The Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast live from MOSCOW, RUSSIA on November 9th,” Trump tweeted that day, referring to the beauty pageant he owned at the time. “A big deal that will bring our countries together!” And maybe not just the countries, Trump said: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant,” he tweeted later that day. “[I]f so, will he become my new best friend?”
"At the heart of the episode is Trump’s relationship with Aras Agalarov, a billionaire Russian real estate mogul with ties to Putin, and Agalarov’s rakish son, Emin, 36, a dance-pop singer with ambitions to international stardom who got Trump to appear in one of his music videos."
"The father and son are two of several ultra-wealthy Russians to whom Trump is connected and with whom he has pursued real estate deals. “I have always been interested in building in Russia,” he told the New York Post just after his return from Moscow. He also boasted upon his return from the pageant that “almost all of the oligarchs were in the room.”
Good luck with that fake taint you mention.
It's more than that. They're in banks and our TV shows. These illegals with British accents just keep coming into the US. Do you honestly believe they got a green card so fast? Bahahaha.
When the Russian hacker was arrested, he donned a pair of goggles and said "Safety is number one priority."
Reality check.
1) As noted at the end of the article, this guy is wanted for hacks that have nothing to do with government email.
2) Illegally obtained evidence can't be used in court.
For someone who endlessly philosophizes on Slashdot, you're ability to read accurately or construct an actual argument are shit.
It is trivial to get a green card as a manager. 7 months from entering the country tops if your immi lawyers are worth their salt.
i love how republicans accuse obama and the democrats of being 'weak' and pussies when it comes to this stuff, however obama shutdown assange internet and took out this presumed guccifer fellow, not to mention bin laden, (something bush didn't do in 8 years) - moral of the story, don't fuck with hillary...
I wonder if the czech are prepering for the kind of reprisals they'll surely receive after this guy is extradited? I know that russian programmers are ingenious and they are very patriotic, hating all the "imperialists". I think there will be no electricity anywhere in Bohemia after the backlash, trains won't run, ICU ventillators will stop, people will be trapped in elevators and the underground railway. Electronic media won't be able to broadcast or only send out hacked RussiaToday messages. It will be as if the country was hit by a low-orbit ion cannon. That's how capable russia's unofficial cyber-war battalion is.
Remember that the czech are not very resilient people, they never actually fought, not even in WWI or WW2. By the time the front line would have reached them, they had always put their hands up, waving the white flag. The same they did in 1968 when tanks rolled in. That kind of unhardened, atheist, rootless liberal country is not well prepared for even a low-intensity conflict with russia, an empire of devoutly patriotic brutes who care not about any lives, their or others. The USA is using the czech and other central-eastern european nations as comfort women, but it will be Ivan, Sergey and Vladimir who does the real raping.
...FBI arrests YOU!
Your second point is wrong, only if it is illegally obtained by the government.
Russian hackers do do other types of breaking into computers and black-hat hacking, you know-- malware, ransomware, zombiebots, credit-card skimming, identity theft, stealing email from people other than Podesta, spamming, DDOS for hire. They don't spend all their time hacking into the Clinton campaign.
This is just tyranny, and corruption at it's worst! Another citizen of freedom goes to the FBI guillotine! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Go read the wikipedia page on '5 eyes'. Germany is currently a rung or two down (9 or 14 eyes) but really wants in to that coveted 5 eyes 'inner circle' of spying.
While they may or may not be beholden to the US, they certainly have similiar interests in abusing the letter of the law over its spirit in order to 'protect and serve up' the public for law enforcement action.