Reply to post: Re: @The idiot... you really don't get it...

British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins

Wayland

Re: @The idiot... you really don't get it...

"The real question is why does the FBI think this is their guy?"

I expect they are annoyed he stopped the WannaCry and don't want hackers messing up their worms in future. Betraying him sends a message to hackers not to be white hackers. Easy to catch a white hat hacker when he's helping GCHQ. Not so easy to catch a black hat hacker.

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