US Govt Pursue UK hacker

[Joker85]

Maybe you've heard of provocation to crime (or what the proper English term is)? If you're making a crime too easy then whoever commits it can't be considered guilty.

Interesting, I don't think we have anything even similar to that in the US. If a woman is wearing provacative clothing and is raped, we don't say "well you shouldn't have dressed like a slut" or "well you shouldn't have been walking down a dark alley drunk at 3 in the morning".

So you did dismiss my burglury argument and even though I disagree with you I chose to let it go.

However, now that you have broadened the subject not to computer crimes but to all crimes and claimed that under British law "if you make a crime too easy whoever commits it can't be considered guilty", I think I'll bring it up again.

Under British law, if you leave your door unlocked and someone steals your property, is it your fault?

If British law indeed works that way, and you can blame a victim for making it "too easy for a crime to be commited against you" then I can see why we are disagreeing here.

Unfortunately for this man, he did not commit his crimes against the UK, he commited them against the US, that is why he is being extradited to the US to answer according to our laws.