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The kind of national agencies that have the capacity to make the hacker "have an accident" develop their own systems in-house. As far as I am aware the market for products like FINFISHER is ordinary LEO and crappy regimes in the middle-east and Asia that don't have the capacity to black-bag a foreign national.

I'm not. Too many eyes on this now.

Maybe I'm missing something in the article, or disclosed elsewhere, but we don't know who s/he is. If the CIA put Thorium in their sushi, we'd have no way to connect the dots.

Edit: I think they'd be far more likely to prosecute them than assassinate them though.

That didn't stop Jeremy Hammond from being convicted and sentenced to 10 years for the Stratfor hack.

its a little late for that.