Obviuosly as am I then. Apple refers to the actions of the hackers as likely criminal and so do I. You can oppose Apple and I on this issue if you want, as we already know you're willing to lie for months on end in defense of the Russian hackers, but don'y try to claim I'm not justified in cqlling them criminal when Apple has officially threatened them with criminal liabilty as well. Take it up with Apple's legal counsel if change your mind that we are not justified, which you probably will LOL.
As with the Stallman/patent incident, you now start quietly tempering your words once you lose. "Likely" makes it a tempered statement, not the absolute claim of criminal you earlier made. "May be" would be still a better addition to your claim, since, while there is ZERO evidence in the article that meets the criteria for a criminal case, it is still possible that they do meet the criteria. But it's still not mentioned, so you have to fabricate "facts" in order to be able to call them criminal.
Apple has officially threatened them with criminal liabilty as well.
They usually do, even when the criteria for criminal punishment have not been met. Notice Apple said "may" be criminal. But that "may" is conditional upon facts simply not present.