FOLK, le, it would be more meaningful, if that is your intention, to refer to "physical damage" as "hardware damage," and to other damage such as erasing or corrupting files as "software damage".

Then there might--and I say "might" because I can't conceptualize it clearly--be what might be called "operational damage". I don't assert that there was any such animal for sure, or even that there can be such; I'm merely trying to clarify concepts here.

Frankly, I would be surprised if there were actual hardware damage, although it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Certain operations in a computer can wreck hard drives, for instance.

In any case, your not knowing the details doesn't make either the prosecution or the extradition unfair. Police and prosecutors in any country I know of don't normally lay out everything they know or suspect in the public's eye. That's what trials are for, in an open society.

Dave Oesterreich