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I find the jurisdictional issues interesting as well. He is not a U.S. citizen, he was not in the United States. Obviously, I would propose that someone who h

I find the jurisdictional issues interesting as well. He is not a U.S. citizen, he was not in the United States. Obviously, I would propose that someone who hacks U.S. interests having never set foot in the United States should be held accountable by U.S. courts, but he was even on the fringe of that in the promotion of it.

lostlogin 5y ago
> Obviously, I would propose that someone who hacks U.S. interests having never set foot in the United States should be held accountable by U.S. courts. I don’t necessarily disagree, but where this gets difficult is the inverse. When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US?
- ComputerGuru 5y ago
  > When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US? If they’re just another Joe Schmoe, they’ll be hung to dry. If they have connections, they not only won’t be extradited, they’ll be smuggled out of the country they committed bald-faced murder in to turn it into a question of extradition when it was not. (Look up Anne Sacoolas.)
  - lostlogin 5y ago
    > Anne Sacoolas This was front and centre of my thinking, along with some of the war-crimes scenarios that have played out.