Yes they did not know him before. He was only recently publicly identified as malwaretech having been doxxed by British media as a 'reward' for stopping the wan

Yes they did not know him before. He was only recently publicly identified as malwaretech having been doxxed by British media as a 'reward' for stopping the wannacry virus. Some journos bought him dinner in Vegas - did they know something, were they really just there for BHDC?. He got all the way to airport and was moaning about the delay with his priority boarding but looking forward to getting back to a debugger. The dude in question they really want is called TouchMe/TouchMyMalware. There are some old chat logs but no hard evidence in them even on TouchMe. If something as ephemeral as an IRC nick is then well then I'm bruceschneieier. They joke about putting Brian Krebs in it and I do recall this was a meme for a while. There is some stuff on hacker forum but kids stuff. It is not illegal even in US/UK to write code. He researches malware, maybe hung out with the creators in IRC. Actual evidence suggests that he did not create or distribute either Kronos or Wannacry. Some people say he wrote and did a video for a RAT. So what - it is a RAT. It is interesting to note the reaction of various hackers. Spot the fed. Used to be a game at BHDC now it is spot the hacker. I think that an alternate con - maybe in Estonia - would be a good idea? There must be many who won't travel to US now or even before. Only last week some UK Police Squad were touting their hacker rehab for kids with some lulzsec dude. Recent UK legislation was brought in that means the government can force you to work for them. They want to make it easier for themselves to spy/hack and to lock up and/or press-gang everybody else. Do what we say not what we do. What OPSEC lessons are we learning kids? Privacy? Getting involved? Helping out? Whoever they also lifted has a SSN, any ideas?