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Re: Fwd: [cfgeeks] HACKERS LEAVE A TRAIL OF CHAOS, BUT FEW

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Mon Feb 14 18:37:23 2000

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Does it matter, for purposes of this discussion?

Either way, you end up in the US, subject to trial.  From there it's a 
simpler matter (albeit non-trivial) to try you in multiple states.

They could pass you around for years, if they did it right.

Hell, look what they did to Mitnick, and they didn't even pass him around.


At 09:26 PM 2/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > I am not alone in thinking that somebody is very likely to be dragged into
> > US custody yet again over this.
>
>is that "legally" dragged into US custody, or the standard amurikan "kidnap
>them, drag them to US soil" then arrest them?



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