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Allegedly. Innocent until proven guilty.

• cortesoft 9y ago
  Which we will find out if he gets a fair trial, but that doesn't mean he should be able to skip the trial because he helped the NHS.
  • vkou 9y ago
    No, he should skip the trial because of the chilling effect prosecuting a security researcher who allegedly wrote a banking trojan would have on legitimate security researchers.
    • tptacek 9y ago
      What chilling effect would that be? I'm a security researcher, many of my friends are security researchers, none of us sell banking trojans (or write them; they're extremely boring as computer science projects) and none of us have changed what we're working on even a little bit as a result of this case. Frankly, this sounds a lot like what people said during the advent of the Hans Reiser trial. Believe it or not, "security researchers" are just as capable of committing crimes as everyone else is.
    • tylersmith 9y ago
      The trial is necessary before you can deem him a legitimate security researcher and trojan authors should feel a chilling effect.
    • cortesoft 9y ago
      What? So if I am a security researcher, I am allowed to write and sell as much malware as I want, with no consequences? That is absurd.