Hacker 'Guccifer' extradited to US Convicted hacker Marcel Lahel, better known by his handle "Guccifer" under which he hacked celebrity and government accounts, is being extradited to the US to face computer intrusion and identity theft charges. Lahel, 42, is best known for stealing and publishing paintings by former US President George W Bush. He also hacked …
David,
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He got caught in 2011 for hacking... suspended sentence.
He got caught in 2014 for hacking... 4 years prison time. (Not sure where you come up w 7 years served.)
Now wanted in the US for his hacking and ID theft here.
Now... funny thing... he can make a nice plea deal with the FBI in exchange for testimony over Hillary's server.
No?
(Not sure where you come up w 7 years served.)
The bit in paragraph 6 about "The Romanian citizen and unemployed taxi driver and paint salesman served seven years in the Arad maximum security prison" might have been it...
Perhaps he'd previously been framed for something serious (7 years max security for a first cybercrime seems harsh) and while trying to clear his name and expose his tormentors, found a trail of corruption leading all the way to the White House?
Where's my tinfoil hat?
>Lahel, 42, is best known
>He began hacking at the age of 35 and in 2011
>The Romanian citizen and unemployed taxi driver and paint salesman served seven years in the Arad maximum security prison
Well, it didn't state that he served the 7 years for hacking, but otherwise, the timeline bits of this article are about as clear as Perl code written while on a bender.
And here I was, thinking that Romania follows human rights, like not extraditing people to countries that have a long and well known history of human rights abuse if not outright contempt.
Despite what you may think, this was a perfectly normal, correctly executed extradition process. Properly requested, with evidence which was credible because the guy burned his fingers already in similar events in his own country, so it wasn't even trumped up (pardon the pun). Heck, it's so normal in context with how the US normally acts it actually stands out.
I'm absolutely no fan of the USA in the way they seem to think that US law applies everywhere, but in this case law enforcement happens to have worked the way it should.
Now, given that this man is from Transylvania I would suspect that he prefers to work at night :).
If you were going to be doing jail time... where would you want to go?
Romania or some Eastern Europe / Slavic country, or a medium security or club fed prison in the US?
And you have to realize that he has a huge bargaining chip in his back pocket.
If it wasn't for him, we would never had known about Hillary's private server... or found proof of her and Billy Boy's corruption.
He could cop a plea and testify against Hillary. Do you not think that he didn't go after Clinton's server once he found out it existed?
He had better act fast. Google Vince Foster if you don't understand.
What's 'open source' intelligence
Facebook, Twitter and any other form of asocial media that not only encourage people to post comments about their OWN personal lives but also that of friends, plus whatever can be mined by using Google. "Open source intelligence" is an actual term, not a made up idea.
Regardless of conditions, he is being taken to a place where his family and friends can no longer visit him. He is being separated from people he shares his language and culture with. Those by themselves are a devastating punishment. Especially when enduring life in prison which is a major hardship.
And US prisons are not exactly comfortable B&Bs.
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