Comments on: Brazilian charged in U.S. in connection with operating botnet

U.S. grand-jury indictment alleges that Brazilian man had a role in a botnet made up of more than 100,000 infected computers designed to send spam.

[Bob_Katopolis]

Sweet!!! Way to go Feds! Now that's what I'm talkin about! These Botnets are one of the biggest threats to the security of the Internet. Cyber crime is costing us billions. We need the FBI to catch and prosecute these dirtbags. I particularly like it when the authorities use the Botnet to notify the owners of the infected zombie machines that they need to fix and protect their machine.

Keep up the good work.

[The_Decider]

I am not defending these bozos in the slightest, but how in the hell can the US enforce its laws committed outside its border?

No wonder we are widely view as a threat to the world.

[The_Decider]

The justice department needs to recommend that people need to be certified to buy or use a computer and should go after MS for creating an OS that is so bloody simple to exploit on a world wide scale.

[unknown unknown]

Those countries have treaties with the U.S, that allow for the extradition of those accused of crimes against the U.S to stand trial in the U.S and visa versa. Of course usually the courts in the other country have to approve before anyone is extradited. Other countries besides the U.S have used this process like Israel and South Korea.

[ferretboy88]

So are you saying if we find out about terrorist groups outside of the US that are planning on a biological or nuclear attack on a major US city we should just take your advice and not do anything about it because we would be over stepping our boundaries and hurting their feelings. Liberals and conservatives think so different. I think If we can prove that guys are haking into computers or trying to attack the country we should be able to send the Navy Seals into their houses and take them out. I guess you would just let them do business as usual because they have rights. What about the rights of the victims?

[JunkSiu]

The US is not enforcing the law outside of US (at least not in this case). US is only waiting for the extradition now and once that person arrive in US, the case still have to be trail in court.

When crime originated outside of a country but cause harm locally, extradition request is normal procedure, though not guarantee success.

[yibkeith]

So if someone mails you a letter bomb from outside the US, we shouldn't try to prosecute because it originated from outside our border?

[telestarnext]

Point is, we are the worlds babysitter. If they were successful at getting 100,000 computers infected, they should have been a lot more effective at brokering their deal to sell (rent) it.

[stephenf99]

all I have to say is, that if a US citizen hacked into any other country's system, this wouldn't be happening, The US feels its superior to everyone else, and everyone should be accountable to the US, and the US should not be accountable to the rest of the world.

What a Shocker!

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