<story><title>Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/malwaretech-legal-case-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chx</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t make the fundamental problem here go away: they arrested someone who was not in the United States when allegedly violated a law of the USA. The USA does not have jurisdiction over the entire world. If they thought they had a case, the right way to do this is to issue an arrest warrant and ask the UK to arrest and extradite him. If this was a thing, international travel would halt because you would need to countercheck everything you&amp;#x27;ve ever done online with the laws of the country you are flying to.&lt;p&gt;Consider this fictionary tale: you fly to Budapest for a fun trip. You are jailed for posting the Soviet hammer and sickle on your Facebook two years ago -- it&amp;#x27;s a crime under Hungarian law to use that symbol. Do you think this is right?&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the law:&lt;p&gt;Any person who:
a) distributes,
b) uses before the public at large, or
c) publicly exhibits,
the swastika, the insignia of the SS, the arrow cross, the sickle and hammer, the five-pointed red star or any symbol
depicting the above so as to breach public peace - especially in a way to offend the dignity of victims of totalitarian regimes and their right to sanctity - is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by custodial arrest, insofar as the did not result in a more serious criminal offense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m okay with how the US handled this.  The crime he pleaded guilty to caused innocent people real financial harm, and it&amp;#x27;s not like the US sent FBI agents over to the UK to pick him up.  He flew here on his own, knowing (presumably) that he had committed a crime that could get him arrested here.&lt;p&gt;Kinda stupid to commit crimes against people in a country and then travel to that country before the statute of limitations has expired.&lt;p&gt;I might have a different opinion for victimless crimes, but it&amp;#x27;s irrelevant to this discussion.</text></comment>
<story><title>Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/malwaretech-legal-case-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chx</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t make the fundamental problem here go away: they arrested someone who was not in the United States when allegedly violated a law of the USA. The USA does not have jurisdiction over the entire world. If they thought they had a case, the right way to do this is to issue an arrest warrant and ask the UK to arrest and extradite him. If this was a thing, international travel would halt because you would need to countercheck everything you&amp;#x27;ve ever done online with the laws of the country you are flying to.&lt;p&gt;Consider this fictionary tale: you fly to Budapest for a fun trip. You are jailed for posting the Soviet hammer and sickle on your Facebook two years ago -- it&amp;#x27;s a crime under Hungarian law to use that symbol. Do you think this is right?&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the law:&lt;p&gt;Any person who:
a) distributes,
b) uses before the public at large, or
c) publicly exhibits,
the swastika, the insignia of the SS, the arrow cross, the sickle and hammer, the five-pointed red star or any symbol
depicting the above so as to breach public peace - especially in a way to offend the dignity of victims of totalitarian regimes and their right to sanctity - is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by custodial arrest, insofar as the did not result in a more serious criminal offense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>&amp;gt; If this was a thing, international travel would halt because you would need to countercheck everything you&amp;#x27;ve ever done online with the laws of the country you are flying to.&lt;p&gt;I mean, for many of us that’s already a problem, and has been for a long time. Ever mentioned your same-sex partner somewhere a Government might be able to find it? There’s now a whole bunch of countries you can’t visit or pass through without being at risk of imprisonment or worse, yay.</text></comment>