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> Hutchins had no idea what registering the domain would do This doesn't seem like a good faith reading of the situation. The blog post you link to as a sourc
by cjbprime 8y ago
> Hutchins had no idea what registering the domain would do
This doesn't seem like a good faith reading of the situation. The blog post you link to as a source for this claim describes how he was doing something he'd done thousands of times before in the service of tracking and disabling botnets, and that he considered it to be his job. But you make it sound like he was a total amateur who saw a domain name string and registered it on a whim with no intuition as to whether it would be more likely to do something helpful or harmful.
It sounds like he did in fact know a lot about what he was doing, such that he could make sensible inferences under uncertainty in the middle of a time-sensitive crisis. That's the best we ever get to expect from someone.
- armitron 8y agoThat's exactly what he did, registered the domain on a whim with no actual facts to back his decision. I think that much is obvious. My reading of the situation is also based on additional data that's public if you care to look. His skill level and intuition can be extrapolated if you watch a few of his youtube videos. Or if you happened to talk with him on IRC. You'd realize he's little more than a script kiddie. Hutchins is not what he has been portrayed as by the media.
- cjbprime 8y agoIt seems weird to simultaneously argue that he shouldn't get a pardon because he's a dangerous hacker, and also that when he was being a dangerous hacker he was just a skill-less script kiddie kid.
- armitron 8y agoThere are lot of script kiddies in the malware-for-profit business, it doesn't take a lot of skill really. He's not at the bottom of the barrel but he's definitely not very far from it.