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Why share such malicious codes with everyone by posting them on her website. She should have demonstarted her excellence in coding with the Computer Crime Unit if her intentions were good. They would have employed her for her amazing skills.
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Before i'd read Gigabytes webpage, i'd have said that writing a virus and putting it on a webpage is doing as much harm as writing a tutorial for breaking software protection, especially if the virus was written in such an obscure language that it would infect 1 in every 10000 people that actually came into contact with it.
Though her site does seem to be more exhibitionist than malicious (c#, tcl viruses, other obscurities), there are viruses that she has there that she put there for the sole purpose of doing damage.
Problem with the case at hand is that she didn't infect anybody with it, she put it up for people to do whatever they want with it. The 'selling a knife doesn't imply responsibility for someone killing a person with it' defence will probably keep her out of jail, but i'd guess theres be some minor punishment incurred from it.
Also, your story is hard to believe. A cybercrime unit hiring a criminal who hacked the cybercrime unit doesn't sound like an obvious (or intelligent) thing to do.