[DickingAround]

Yea, I'm not saying I want a kinetic or offensive solution either. More like, it might be possible. Like if someone kills a bunch of people in France and flees to Germany, then Germany is going to hand them back over to France. Clearly not everywhere has extraditions, but you can imagine a world where hacking isn't so much tolerated and defended against as punished and thus uncommon (like breaking into a house; you can but you're not supposed to and there's consequences).

[unionpivo]

oh this happens regularly inside EU. And even cooperating with US. A few years ago, someone from town I live was involved in making/selling one of those exploit toolkits on dark web. FBI contacted our police, he got arrested, and convicted. He didn't get extradited to US, but is in prison here.

It's not that uncommon.