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No, he's being prosecuted for allegedly agreeing to extract a password from a hash. Not for actually doing so, massive difference.



The definition of a criminal conspiracy requires intent and an agreement to act in furtherance of that intent, and only one of the conspirators to have committed overt acts.

Everyone with mens rea is guilty of conspiring, not just the person who committed the actus reus.


> Everyone with mens rea is guilty of conspiring, not just the person who committed the actus reus.

That's not strictly true; the agreement is the individual actus reus.




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