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Comment by wodencafe | Hacker News Reader

So why isn't the FBI knocking at Bill Gates' door, for facilitating hacking, spyware and botnets with the Windows Operating System?

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Of course I'm assuming you asked this question rhetorically, but I really feel the answer is worth stating explicitly :)

Bill Gates is an extremely rich and politically connected individual. Technicalities rarely apply to them.

To be arrested as a massively wealthy individual, you need to be committing crimes on the scale of Madoff, Enron, or murder with a weapon other than a drone :)

Unfortunately this is true.

Massive wealth disparity has created different classes of people, including an Elite class, the wealthiest, who are treated like royalty.

Couldn't agree more, my friend.

What will be even scarier and chilling is when they find a way to either fine, imprison, sue us for libel, or impugn us for pointing out their crimes using our freedom of speech! :)

Yeah, seriously, go after the person or corporation that has the most power in solving the problem. Who allows all those computers to be hacked so easily? The companies developing and servicing the systems. Fix the broken systems, don't go after the hackers. If there's nothing to hack they will go away anyway.

Intent.

This guy's intent was to create a software and sell it. His clients intents is another story.

His intent was to create software to sell at hackforums which also sells pay-per-installs. I doubt there is even a single user on hackforums who bought his software who would use it for legitimate purposes.

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