> "We have a 99.6 percent conviction rate in cybercrime"<p>I'm sure he sees absolutely nothing weird in that. The Spanish Inquisition managed to get similar rates. I'm <i>very</i> surprised the Dutch (as in: <i>my</i>) government is agreeing to this extradition. It's very well possible that this is in part because of the current animosity between Putin and the rest of the world.<p>It's quite possible the guy is guilty but Ari Baranoff is on the record as having said that he will not be given a fair trial.
> "We have a 99.6 percent conviction rate in cybercrime"<p>AUSA Paul Fishman also prosecuted the famous Auernheimer "ipad hack" case, and then went on to watch judges in the appeals court reverse the conviction on procedural grounds and admonish the way that Fishman and his office handled the case.<p>I wonder if the statistic takes into account situations like that, or if weev's case wasn't considered "cybercrime."<p>At any rate it is nice to see that Fishman also obtains indictments against real criminals from time to time.
I expect HN people to get their vocabulary straight and use the word "hacker" only for the people that build things. This story is obviously about a cracker.