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6/3/2014 | 10:51:48 AM
Blackshades is, obviously, an abomination, and despite the protestations of some of the customers, I very much doubt there is any legitimate reason for a normal person to buy such a thing.
However, I can see the same arguments would apply to (for example) lockpicks, spy cameras and dozens of other items that have few if any legitimate uses - however, absent specific laws, they have yet to make selling such things illegal (even if possession may be in many places) and I have yet to see any claims that the defendent himself actually took part in any of the illegal activity.
Absent that, holding him for conspiracy (much less having him yanked from a foreign country to do so) may turn out to be an expensive mistake.