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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.'"
...they lost the ACM contest to the Chinese.
I guess by "best" they mean "second best."
In the post-9/11 world, Soviet Russians hack you! Sorry.
'our hackers are the best in the world.'
A lot of script kiddies claim that..
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
They happen to like the colour red.
I'm sure we'll find out soon, all over the front pages of Department K's website, along with the strange Chinese term "0wn3d".
And the Russian police is the best in the world, in corrupcy !
Oh, sure, their economy's in the crapper, crime is out of control, Chechen terrorists attack Moscow every now and again, the political scene is split between nationalist authoritarians and communist authoritarians, poverty's no better than under Soviet conditions, and AIDS is ballooning in the nation, but damn it, their hackers are top notch!
Yeah ok, I think not enough of your have witnessed the glory of Goldeneye. As Borris clearly demonstrated, "I am inveincible!" And so it is.
All they need is an IBM computer with 14.400 bps modem 2x cd-rom and and a lot of cigarettes. That's it!
No no.. I know. You say, what about babe.. but no. The 2x cd-rom is what made it magic.
In school you couldn't hack mathematics.
In Soviet Russia, mathematicians hack YOU!
(apologies, but it's been a while since anyone observed proper form for Soviet Russia-jokes :-)
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Duran
-1 meme-bait.
I bet that article will read "CHINESE hackers best in the world" in a coupla hours :)
Anyway, I'd loooove to hear what the Chinese hackers have to say about this.
Probably something like "fuck USA Government - fuck PoizonBOx" only forgetting to close the TABLE tag.
The geek version of penis envy.
Got no time for this crap. I have to rush on over to the computer store and pick me up some quality Russian-made software products. I hear their programmers are the best in the world. Can't wait to get my hands on... uhhhhh... Tetris?
"Russian invented the lightbulb"
Of course they didn't, everyone knows that. The British did!
In your face Germany and Hungary! USA! USA!
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Somebody already installed some on your computer for you.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Don't worry, I'm sure GP meant "corrupcy" as a corruption of the word corruption. Or something ...
Anyways, reminds me of a joke that was doing the rounds during the Cold War in India. An American, Russian and Indian cop meet up at an international police conference. They get to bragging about their respective police forces.
"Y'know, back home in Texas, if a man commits a crime, he'll be safely in custody by the next day. We're that good."
The Russian laughs, and says, "Next day?? Comrade, in Soviet Russia, the KGB track everybody so well, that if somebody commits a crime we know who, what and why, and have arrested the criminal that very day itself!"
Not to be outdone, the Indian cop laughs in turn. "I can't believe how lazy you are in the First World", he says, "In India, the police are paid to hush up a crime WEEKS in advance!"
The best band since the beatles. Yeah, rrright.
"American kids in my opinion are often more well rounded at youth" That would be the steady stream of Big Macs and chocolate they consume. =P
while (true != false) process_more_stupid_code();
As soon as I saw the word Russia in the title, I knew it was an inevitability. If you didn't do it, someone else would have.
Therefore, in Soviet Russia, forgiveness for the corny post finds you (!)
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
At least they have the best online music store in the world. That's got to count for something.
Or the Germans... who have a nice history of getting their hands on just about anything they damn well please.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
(I hear the Klingon translation is also quite good.)
Are you saying they breed more than other white people...? If you are, I would have to ask you not to use racist language such as cracker in the future.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
I find this somewhat offensive. I live near Redmond, and well ... oh nevermind.
It is very cold in Russia, so people are inside all the time on the computer.
Their economy crashed and they can't afford fast machines that run games nicely, so they are stuck with the linux bash shell to entertain themselves.
If you were stuck inside all the time with only a 486 linux box and your government was too busy to worry about computer crimes, maybe you would develop some good hacking skills too.
but who has the best prostitutes?