Creating and Selling Malware: Is it a crime?

Professor Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University where he teaches and writes about cybercrime law and criminal procedure and one of the best legal minds in the area of the Fourth Amendment as it relates to the internet, has an interesting piece in the Washington Post about an indictment brought against Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher, for allegedly creating and selling malware.

The indictment was brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Professor Kerr's article provides his initial analysis of the charges.