Just to clarify, he was not charged for writting the RAT, he was charged for maybe wanting to sell an exploit in some fashion, possibly to a third-party that wa

Just to clarify, he was not charged for writting the RAT, he was charged for maybe wanting to sell an exploit in some fashion, possibly to a third-party that wanted to sell it on. IANAL: And the prosc has to prove that you intend or effectively did both market/sell and that it was for illegal use - selling information about an exploit in e.g Chrome is quite different if you try to sell it to the Chrome developers.