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echo: alt-comp-anti-virus
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from: PABST BLUE RIBBON
date: 2018-09-29 09:19:00
subject: Re: `Scan4Yyou` Operator

Virus Guy  wrote:

> A Latvian “non-citizen,” meaning a citizen of the former USSR who 
> resided in Riga, Latvia, was sentenced to 168 months in prison today for 
> offenses related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter 
> antivirus service that helped computer hackers determine whether the 
> computer viruses and other malicious software they created would be 
> detected by antivirus software, announced Assistant Attorney General 
> Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. 
> Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and 
> Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno of the FBI Washington Field 
> Office’s Criminal Division.

It's interesting how Latvia can deny citizenship to people who used to live
the their whole life based only on their ethnicity, but somehow it's not a
violation of human rights.

Was he living in US or he was extradited from Latvia?

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