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Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World
Ant writes "ZDNet UK reports that Russians who once hacked for fun are now teaming up to get rich through cybercrime, according to police. The Russian cybercrime division, known as Department K, has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world. From the article: 'Everyone knows that Russians are good at math...Our software writers are the best in the world, that's why our hackers are the best in the world.'"
well, in single contests like that, there is always a little luck involved, looking at the times involved, I doubt the Russian team was all that much worse than the Chinese one. Besides, they did a lot better than MIT & UC Berkeley which ended up on a shared 29th place.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Well if it quacks like I duck, it probably is a... hehe sorry couldn't resist :) Guess the Moldovan mafia is comming for me now.
The problem in America: moral decay after the sexual revolution. You just don't have the kind of honorable, patient and wise families and children that would make good mathematicians.
As long as they ain't studyin none of that heathen physics that says the universe is billions of years old!
Now that the Cold War has cooled, maybe we can just nuke all these hackers and solve three problems at once:
I'm starting to like the idea that nations should be divided by IP ranges to make it easier to exclude a country from your network. It would certainly solve a lot of problems with China, Russion, North Korea.