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UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US (zdnet.com)
Zack Whittaker, reporting for ZDNet: A security researcher who in May stopped an outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware has been arrested and detained after attending the Def Con conference in Las Vegas. Marcus Hutchins, 23, a British national, was arrested at Las Vegas airport on Wednesday by US Marshals, several close friends confirmed to ZDNet. A friend told ZDNet that he was "was pulled by Marshals at the lounge" after clearing security. He was briefly detained in a federal facility in Nevada until he was moved. "We went to see him this morning and we had already been moved," said the friend. Hutchins is now understood to be in custody at an FBI field office in the state. Motherboard first broke the story on Thursday. Update: A Motherboard reporter tweets, "Here's the indictment accusing @MalwareTechBlog of running the Kronos banking malware."
Update 2: New DOJ statement: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 11, 2017, following a two-year long investigation, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Marcus Hutchins, also known as "Malwaretech," for his role in creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan.
Update 2: New DOJ statement: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 11, 2017, following a two-year long investigation, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Marcus Hutchins, also known as "Malwaretech," for his role in creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan.
Don't they understand? Doing shit like this means we won't have DefCon in the U.S. any longer. Think of the hotels and all the revenue we'll be missing!!! Does Trump know about this?
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
He may have helped to stop it, but it begs the question.. Did he have a hand in spreading it in the first place, or is this an unrelated charge?
It doesn't beg that question any more than it begs the question of why anyone who is a high profile security researcher would be stupid enough to travel to the US.
Yes, but 'beg the question' is just a really bad translation of the original phrase. Let 'beg the question' have its new meaning, which makes linguistic sense, and come up with a new phrase for what is essentially circular logic.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Are you guys retarded? This shit was orchestrated years ago under the Obama administration.
"Begging the question" is a bad translation of petitio principii, which is itself a bad translation from Greek sources. Linguistically there isn't really a right answer here. The exact meaning is almost always clear from context, and the usage is very much moving away from the "scholarly" definition. Given that there's not an absolutely correct position on this issue, I think that it's best to avoid using the phrase oneself, and tolerate its use or misuse with others. And if the argument you are responding to does not directly hinge on a point of meaning, it's probably just as well to avoid raising the subject. Life is too short for needless semantic arguments.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
I'd like to see the actual indictment
Aaaaand here it is.
OK - looks he has some past and that's catching up with him now - bummer or ??? at least, he seemed to do some good on this WannaCry remedy.
Who knows...
It's kind of a bit odd though that the guy who stopped "Wannacry" is the only one involved in the entire thing from NSA to in the wild who has been arrested, especially given things like the situation where the "Stratfor" hack was carried out by one of the FBI's tame hackers/informants who is still wandering around free.
I think it's looking more likely that this guy got in the way of someone's agenda at the FBI by limiting the damage of "Wannacry" and thus ruining a chance for extra "cybersecurity" funding.
It will probably take years before we know either way.