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Should Latvia be extraditing a home-grown hacker to the US

Seeney / WallisAugust 11, 2013

The Latvian government has decided to extradite a hacker to the United States where he'll stand trial. The Americans accuse the programmer of helping to create and spread one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in history. But although the US accuses the hacker of serious cyber crimes, the request to extradite him has provoked angry reactions in Latvia. Gederts Gelzis reports.

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