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rickdangerous1 on March 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please do not take down the Sality botnet

What makes you think that he didn't post this and then immediately do it himself? It's called plausible deniability.

gcb on March 28, 2012 [–]

this actually will make it harder for him, as he just defined motive and means to the prosecution

regularfry on March 29, 2012 | [–]

Only if the act itself were traceable to him. If he's the only one who knows how to do it, and it happens, then "of course" he did it. If everyone knows how to do it, who knows who might have been responsible?

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