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ryanlol on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"

FBI grabbed me after the hacker conference. Before the con they just searched my room in Vegas and seized my throwaway netbook and phone.

They didn't harass me for being a foreigner or a kid, I suppose they might have let me off easy because of that though.

hellbanner on Aug 5, 2017 [–]

Why were you targeted in the first place? (Sorry I'm not familiar with you)

ryanlol on Aug 5, 2017 | [–]

If you go up a bit in this thread you'll find other comments discussing this.

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