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I think there's very little evidence that the DOJ routinely frames accused computer criminals --- or even that they routinely make mistakes with them. The reality is that so few computer crimes are prosecuted that the ones that are are usually smoking-gun cases.

I can't speak to any other aspect of federal prosecution. My thoughts about computer crime prosecution definitely can't be extrapolated to my thoughts about criminal justice in general.




The government has also been shown to be very vindictive and has a strong desire for revenge.

Wanncry was a massive black eye of the US Government, I think everyone believing there is zero connection between his involvement in that and this indictment is also naive.

I also fail to understand why you believe "computer crimes" are handled differently than any other type of crime, why you believe the DOJ would frame people for "other types of crimes" but never computer crimes, like there is some prohibition on entrapment when it comes to computers...




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